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Protest dismantling of home health care
January 23, 2004SACRAMENTO, Calif. – More than 1,000 home health care providers and recipients gathered Jan. 13 outside the State Capitol to answer the call to battle against Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger and the vicious cuts he proposes as...
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January 23, 2004Workers’ Correspondence I just got off the phone with a very nice young woman by the name of Gail, who handles legislation and lobbying for the national office of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. I was...
Read moreThe politics of indices
January 23, 2004DOW, NASDAQ, and GDP don’t truly reflect the health of the nation
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January 23, 2004CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas: Wal-Mart locks up workers With 1.2 million workers in 3,500 stores, Wal-Mart has hit upon a trick to increase their profits which even its competitors condemn. The mega-store locks in workers overnight in...
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January 23, 2004When a Republican District Attorney in Waller County, Texas wrote a letter claiming that students at Prairie View A&M University, which has an almost totally African American student population, did not necessarily have the right to...
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