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  • Hospital VP tells packed hearing: Stock health comes first

    Hospital VP tells packed hearing: Stock health comes first

    February 13, 2004

    PHILADELPHIA – When Tenet Healthcare System closed the historic Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital Dec. 18, the for-profit corporation did not ask the city or state for help or inform them of its plans because earlier...

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  • Social Security  doing just fine

    Social Security doing just fine

    February 13, 2004 By Mark Weisbrot

    You may have heard that our Social Security system is headed for trouble when the generation known as the baby boom begins to retire. You heard wrong.

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  • $5.15 an hour doesnt pay the bills

    $5.15 an hour doesnt pay the bills

    February 13, 2004

    NEW YORK – Raising the minimum wage, currently $5.15 an hour, will be the top legislative priority for this state’s Working Families Party, said Dwight Loines, political director of United Auto Workers Region 9A Community Action...

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  • bushgreenwatch hits environment budget

    bushgreenwatch hits environment budget

    February 13, 2004

    Conservation groups accused the Bush administration of singling out environmental spending for larger cuts than other domestic programs in the year 2005 budget, putting at risk environmental and public health protections under the guise of fiscal...

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  • 20,000 Marylanders say: Save Our Schools

    20,000 Marylanders say: Save Our Schools

    February 13, 2004

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Holding neon light sticks in the chill darkness and placards that read “Fund Public Schools,” parents, students, teachers and other school workers marched on the State House Feb. 9 to demand that Gov....

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