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Workers skimp on health care while greedy millionaires fight real reform
April 27, 2009Original source: Here’s the latest example of how far corporations will go to stop real health care reform. Rick Scott, a multimillionaire, is putting $5 million of his own fortune into an ad campaign against President...
Read moreU.N. conference reaches agreement on anti-racism resolution
April 27, 2009Delegates from more than 100 United Nations (U.N.) member nations met in Geneva, Switzerland, this week to discuss strategies for eradicating racism. The Durban Review Conference (Durban II) is a follow-up to the World Conference against...
Read moreLatinos in the South often targets of abuse
April 27, 2009Original source: Low-income Latinos have become growing targets across the South. In a report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center, poor Latinos described life in the South as living in a 'war zone.'...
Read moreUnion activist appointed to Labor Department
April 27, 2009WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has appointed a key union activist as senior adviser to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, another sign of the influence that organized labor wields in the Obama administration. Mary Beth Maxwell...
Read moreStruggle to solve crisis moves to IMF, World Bank
April 26, 2009WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - Efforts to pull the global economy out of its nosedive enter a new phase this weekend amid warnings the decline is steeper than previously thought and signs the cockpit crew continue...
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