Opinion
HSAs Disaster for working families
February 10, 2006In his State of the Union address President Bush announced the centerpiece of his efforts to reform health care would be tax breaks for people to pay for their own health care, including Health Savings Accounts...
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California takes up health care, election financing, drivers licenses
February 10, 2006As its 2006 session gets into full swing, the California Legislature is considering measures dealing with health care, publicly funded elections, and driver’s licenses for all. Senate Bill 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act introduced...
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Six more weeks of winter?
February 10, 2006Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from his secure, undisclosed location to make television appearances following the president’s State of the Union Address, but then immediately returned to his hiding place — indicating that America may be...
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Shift to service jobs
February 10, 2006Dramatic effects for the U.S. working class are being wrought by the sustained shift to service from production occupations. The shift is powered by both globalization and technological revolution. One effect of this shift in the...
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Mexico poised to move left in July election
February 10, 2006NewsAnalysis Mexican voters will elect a new president July 2. The constitution gives presidents one six-year term and forbids re-election, so the current president, Vicente Fox Quezada of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN), must go....
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