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White House opens health care summit
March 6, 2009Following on the heels of the Obama administration's announcement of its proposal for a $634 billion health care fund as part of its first budget, the White House opened its first health care reform summit today,...
Read moreHave you joined the Facebook revolution?
March 6, 2009“I Facebook, therefore I am,” was a headline I read online recently. Almost everyone I know has a Facebook account and it seems people are more and more joining a growing cultural trend of cyber-social networking....
Read moreCOMMENTARY: International rules needed for money markets
March 6, 2009Akahata is the newspaper of the Communist Party of Japan With the 2nd G20 summit set for early April in London to deal with the financial turmoil, work on international rules has begun with a view...
Read morePro-union workers fired in over one-fourth of union election campaigns
March 6, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than one-fourth of all union-representation elections in the 2000s have been marred by an illegal firing of a pro-union worker, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy...
Read moreGoodbye “trickle-down” economics
March 6, 2009Fresh from winning passage of a $787 billion economic stimulus package, the Obama administration has outlined its $3.6 trillion budget for the coming year. Its priorities represent a sharp break with longstanding Republican “trickle down” economics,...
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