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Breaking the stranglehold of the insurance industry
May 13, 2005People’s Health Buying protection against the possibility of future risks is as old as time itself. In the corporate world, this system of protection is called insurance. Everyone faces the risk of fires and damage to...
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Airline workers pensions crash and burn
May 13, 2005The union representing United Airlines’ flight attendants warned of the demise of the nation’s defined-benefit pension system after a bankruptcy judge gave the airline the go-ahead to dump billions of dollars of pension obligations owed to...
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Iraq upgraded from quagmire to morass
May 13, 2005Situation disastrous but not catastrophic, defense sec’y says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon today that the conflict in Iraq had improved to the point that it could no longer be considered...
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Perfect storm on pensions, health care
May 13, 2005People Before Profits Quickly converging with the debate on Social Security is the worsening state of the U.S. private pension system. Recent research reported by Physicians for a National Health Program, and by Richard Berner, the...
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Houston janitors fight for justice
May 13, 2005HOUSTON — “It is misery,” said Ercilia Sandoval, who has worked as a janitor in Houston for seven years. In a fiery speech to 1,000 participants in the April 30 Justice for Janitors convention here, the...
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