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Bush uses 9/11 for votes, neglects WTC responders
October 15, 2004The Center for Disease Control’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” (MMWR) has issued the first official findings from its federally funded Mt. Sinai Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program concerning the health status of rescue and...
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Reader commentMilitary families on Interstate 35
October 15, 2004The Bush administration’s pretensions to represent anyone apart from its corporate cronies have never been further from reality. While Republican propagandists have toiled nonstop to dress Bush up as the clear presidential candidate for the military...
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A perfect storm on pensions
October 15, 2004In an earlier column on the crisis gripping state employee pension funds, I mistakenly gave some comfort to private sector workers by alluding to pension protections provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
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Pages from workers lives
October 15, 2004During the Depression in the 1930s, too many people in the United States died of hunger. Millions of families were saved from this fate by getting jobs with the Works Project Administration (WPA). These were public...
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International notes
October 15, 2004Spain: U.S. troops won’t march on holiday Spain’s Defense Minister Jose Bono said last week that U.S. troops won’t march in Spain’s Oct. 12 national day parade this year. Instead, a French contingent will participate. Former...
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