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CAFTA = pollution, hunger, job loss

July 22, 2005 By Bruce Bostick And Rosalío Muñoz

With a vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement expected in the House of Representative before the end of July, 10 activists in the Los Angeles Coalition Against CAFTA held a four-day hunger strike July...

Medicare drug plan: Stingy benefits, high cost

July 22, 2005

The Bush administration’s top health officials have hit the road to educate (sell) seniors on Medicare’s complex new drug benefit. A recent stop in New Hampshire was like a road show, complete with a bus painted...

Sit-in to save TennCare

July 22, 2005

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee health care activists have been sitting in since June 20 at the Statehouse to demand that Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) stop the threatened cut of 325,000 from the TennCare roles. Tenncare is...

Aging population no cause for crisis

July 22, 2005 By Art Perlo

Efforts to convince us that Social Security faces a crisis often start with the demographic argument: the U.S. population is aging. The White House web site says that in 1950 there were 16 active workers supporting...

The railroad spirit and apple pie

July 22, 2005

The railroad worker has his own special psychology. His sense of control over the long trains, his feeling that he occupies a strategic position in industry, his meeting with many new scenes and people daily, his...