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Angelinos fight transit rate hike
June 1, 2007LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of workers, students, handicapped and elderly people filled the downtown Metropolitan Transit Authority building May 24 to protest proposed transit fare hikes, following MTA Chief Executive Roger Snoble’s announcement of restructuring proposals...
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Critics say expansion plan wont reform California prisons
June 1, 2007A $7.4 billion program to expand California’s already vast prison system, proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and approved by the Legislature last month, is drawing fire from advocates of prison reform and is viewed skeptically even...
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Market efficiency and health care
June 1, 2007They are truly wonderful, the efficiencies of the market. For several decades now, those who advocate privatizing virtually every government program preach about how much more efficient private business is, how much more can be accomplished...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
June 1, 2007Security workers march for health care, respectPrivate security officers and their supporters marched May 24 through downtown Oakland, Calif., past the high-rise commercial office buildings they work to protect, to demand decent wages, affordable family health...
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Ohioans urge end to foreclosure frenzy
June 1, 2007CLEVELAND — Residents here appealed to Congress May 21 to end the epidemic of home foreclosures wrecking their city. Community leaders, public officials, researchers and banking experts charged in testimony at a congressional hearing that the...
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