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Rx gap hits Blacks, Latinos

February 20, 2004 By Marie C. Reed And J. Lee Hargraves

The Nation’s Health Workers’ Safety Working-age African Americans and Latinos are much more likely than white Americans to report they cannot afford all of their prescription drugs, according to a new study by the Center for...

LABOR UPDATE

February 20, 2004

Government adopts ‘Wal-Mart’ personnel policies Hundreds of federal workers, members of American Federation of Government Employees, took to Capitol Hill last week to protest a new personnel plan for the Department of Defense that would eliminate...

Momentum builds for March 20 peace rallies

February 20, 2004

NEW YORK – Preparations are well under way for another major display of antiwar sentiment here on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. “People are responding to this because...

Soldiers dad: Aid needed for Baghdad hospital

February 20, 2004

SAN DIEGO – Fernando Suárez del Solar is a man with a mission. Meeting this determined and compassionate father at a local social justice center here (a pink house on a working-class street corner) evokes a...

In slap at Bush, Senate to probe WMD lies

February 19, 2004 By Susan Webb

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence handed President Bush a direct challenge when it announced Feb. 12 that it will investigate whether Bush and other top officials misused and manipulated intelligence to make a case for...