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Labor issues call for a new New Deal
July 30, 2009The executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, called for a massive second economic stimulus package yesterday, modeled after FDR’s Works Progress Administration, noting that the agency put 3.5 million people to work...
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As food stamp use rises 20 percent, retail stores open doors
July 30, 2009In a sign of the growing recessionary troubles, several retail outlets have begun accepting food stamps. According to USA Today, Family Dollar, 7-11, Costco and Target are among the outlets. Greater profits along with consumer demand...
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Action needed to avert AIDS ‘treatment time bomb’
July 30, 2009JOHANNESBURG, 28 July 2009 (PlusNews) - The goal of achieving universal access to treatment by 2010 has preoccupied the global AIDS community in recent years, but a new report warns that not preparing for the changing...
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Working families rally for public option
July 30, 2009Original source: Health Care For America Now, a coalition including unions, rallied in Seattle Tuesday to support health care reform with a public option. Zels Bryan Johnson was there: ” People here are absolutely ecstatic about...
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U.S. to sign UN treaty on people with disabilities
July 30, 2009Original source: President Obama recently announced that the United States will sign on to the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at a ceremony commemorating the 19th anniversary of the passage of the...
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