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Health care law includes no lifetime limits
September 24, 2010Perhaps the most important piece of the new health care law that kicked in Sept. 23 is no more lifetime coverage caps.
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Republican “pledge”: kill jobs, give money to rich
September 24, 2010While the GOP plan would deliver this harsh blow to working families, it would add some $629 billion to the deficit in order to provide new tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans.
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The fruits of corporate globalization: a review of “El Traspatio”
September 23, 2010This film is a searing and realistic depiction of what international monopoly capital does to the lives of ordinary working men and women.
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The departure of Lawrence Summers and the fight for jobs
September 22, 2010Whether and how the Obama economic team shifts after the departure of Summers will reflect much more than simply what the president would like to do.
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Tea party trying to take New York with a baseball bat
September 22, 2010NEW YORK - All bets are off as "Crazy Carl" Paladino, an extreme right tea party candidate, won the Republican nomination for governor last week.
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