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Michigan: door-by-door battleground
September 13, 2008GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Any way you shake out the electoral math, Michigan may be the key to a winning scenario for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. While Kerry won the state by four points in...
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Workers continue Boeing shutdown, job security key issue
September 11, 2008Boeing workers are prepared for a long strike to prevent their jobs from being outsourced as their shutdown of the nation’s largest airplane maker enters its fourth day. Mark Blondin, the chief negotiator for the International...
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Cuba devastated by Ike, but Cubans show grit
September 11, 2008HAVANA – (Sept. 10) Cuba has been, and continues to be, devastated by Hurricane Ike. The only thing, and without question the most important thing, that hasn't been devastated is the will and determination of the...
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People of faith unite to end poverty
September 11, 2008The Census Bureau reported earlier this month another rise in the federal poverty rate in 2007, and economists believe that with growing unemployment, those figures will only get worse. So this week a faith-based coalition of...
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The cruelty of modern-day slavery in U.S. farm fields
September 11, 2008In a dehumanizing federal case, five members of the same family in Immokalee Fla. pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan farmworkers for more than two years. Slavery in the U.S. has been banned...
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