U.S.
Recession hits Social Security and Medicare
May 14, 2009The recession has taken a big bite out of Medicare and Social Security, according to the latest reports from the trustees of both of those programs released this week. In both cases, rising unemployment, now at...
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TVA sends spilled coal ash to impoverished Black communities in Georgia and Alabama
May 14, 2009Original source: The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun shipping toxic coal ash from the massive spill that occurred last December at its Kingston power plant in east Tennessee's Roane County to landfills in the neighboring states...
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Cheerios and cholesterol — don’t believe the hype, FDA warns
May 13, 2009If you are eating Cheerios because you believe that it will dramatically lower your cholesterol, then forget about it.
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Good election news for labor in Texas
May 13, 2009Reports from the three large Texas cities which held local elections May 9 are good news for labor. The Dallas AFL-CIO endorsed 6 candidates for City Council. Five of them won outright and the sixth goes...
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US may have decade-long recesssion
May 13, 2009Washington, May 12 (Prensa Latina) The US Nobel laureate in Economy Paul Krugman said his country could confront a decade of zero growth if more aggressive incentive measures are not employed informed Economy Nobel laureate, Paul...
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