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Sen. Boxer: Lay memo is smoking gun
February 8, 2002WASHINGTON – Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) assailed former Enron CEO Ken Lay Feb. 4 for pulling out of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. She said that once again Lay is keeping the people of California “in...
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No applause here for Bush budget
February 8, 2002Any doubts about President Bush’s priorities were erased when he submitted his Fiscal Year 2003 budget to Congress Feb. 4. Dubbed a budget “that leaves no military contractor behind,” the $2.13 trillion spending and tax package...
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Gov. calls for relief for California unemployed
February 8, 2002LOS ANGELES – In his annual State of the State address in January, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, called on state legislators to enact to bring much-needed relief to California’s unemployed. Two more sources of information...
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Welfare groups rally in D.C.
February 8, 2002WASHINGTON – Lawmakers were so busy Feb. 5 with the Enron debacle they had no time to hear from 300 poor people from across the country here to demand jobs or benefits to support their children....
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Another world is possible
February 8, 2002On Jan. 31, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney warned the World Economic Forum (WEF) that working people had come to the group’s annual meeting, held Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, to “challenge Enron economics at home and...
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