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Postpone drug plan deadline!
April 29, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — The same labor-backed coalition that last year helped successfully derail GOP President George W. Bush’s Social Security privatization scheme has launched a campaign to get lawmakers to postpone the May 15 deadline seniors...
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Displaced Katrina survivors lose health care benefits
April 29, 2006As Medicaid waivers begin to expire, Katrina evacuees who need health care are growing ever more desperate. In September 2005, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the federal agency which administers Medicaid, initiated a...
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CWA hits high-tech visas
April 29, 2006Spotlighting an aspect of the nation’s immigration debate that has received little attention, the Communications Workers executive board voted April 18 to lobby against a guest worker program which allows employers to create a temporary workforce...
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The economic cost of the Iraq war
April 29, 2006President Bush proposes to cut $1.4 million from the program for early detection and screening of breast and cervical cancer, denying services to 4,000 women. The Iraq war costs $1.4 million every 7 minutes, 22 seconds.
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Western siege of Palestinians fuels misery, anger
April 29, 2006A warning by a senior UN official this week that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is reaching a “potentially dangerous deterioration” was but one of many signs pointing to a deepening crisis. A humanitarian catastrophe is already unfolding...
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