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Enron hearing exposes big banks

July 26, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

Corporate corruption that has made headlines since Enron’s collapse took on a new dimension last week when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) found that two of the nation’s largest banks were involved in accounting...

AFL-CIO to Wall Street: No more business as usual

July 26, 2002

Call for Bush-Cheney probe George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney faced sharp new questions about their role in Enron-style corporate fraud as the stock market continued to plummet and WorldCom went belly-up July 22,...

Youth gear up for 2002 elections

July 25, 2002

Commentary All across the country youth are gearing up for the November elections. They are forming broad-based coalitions on campuses and working with community, religious and labor organizations to register students and young workers to vote....

This system is rotten to the core — a case in point

July 25, 2002

This is a time when people’s confidence in the system of capitalism is being shaken. It all started with Enron, but then other giants like Global Crossings and WorldCom joined in. People see a pattern here.

Supreme Court backs OSHA scofflaw employers

July 25, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

A recent Supreme Court decision has given employers a free hand in excluding workers who may have a preexisting health condition. In this case the preexisting health condition would be one which might become worse given...