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April 2, 2004It’s about oil With gasoline prices pushing toward $2 a gallon, people are fuming mad over oil company greed. Exxon Mobil raked in an enormous $21.5 billion in profits last year. Shell reported $12.7 billion. And...
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Teachers and their union fight for public education
April 2, 2004An interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Deborah Lynch The most important thing we can do to reverse NCLB is defeat Bush in November.
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Best health insurance deal in the United States
April 2, 2004I want to tell you about the best health insurance deal in the United States, bar none. Here it is: The purchaser pays $35 per month. In return he or she gets ...
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I didnt know I could be sold!
April 2, 2004Workers’ Correspondence I am one of 150 employees of the Home Care Network of Chicago’s Rush Hospital who were literally sold March 23 to Patient Care, a giant for-profit home-care company with 6,000 employees nationwide. Workers...
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Students demand justice for immigrant janitors
April 2, 2004ST. LOUIS – Students at Washington University here are demanding the return of 36 Nicaraguan custodial and maintenance workers who were forced to leave the country after their contract with G&G Building Services was terminated in...
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