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Aid urgently needed to stem Cook County health care crisis
December 29, 2009Stroger Hospital, is the largest public hospital in Cook County and one of the largest in the country. If there is a place where the nation's horrific health care crisis can be seen this is it.
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Health Care for America Now campaigns to finish reform right
December 28, 2009Health Care for America Now has launched an intensive campaign calling for public option and other measures in the final bill.
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No Happy New Year for California’s budget
December 28, 2009After coping with over $60 billion in budget shortfalls this year, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to propose draconian new budget cuts.
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Senate health care vote lays the groundwork
December 24, 2009Health care reformers applauded the Senate's vote for a health care reform bill, calling it "groundwork" for expanding and improving the health care system in the weeks and months ahead.
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Bronx community takes on the real estate industry
December 24, 2009Who said you can't beat City Hall? In a predominantly Hispanic working-class New York neighborhood, people organized against powerful business interests allied with City Hall, and they won.
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