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Swine flu shows need for health reform, says Sebelius
July 11, 2009While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated this week that as many as 1 million Americans may have contracted the H1N1 virus, it doesn't seem to be any more dangerous than the seasonal flu, Health...
Read moreHe taketh from the mine owners and he giveth to the miners
July 11, 2009For the eight long years of the Bush administration the government’s Mine, Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) was run by representatives of the people who own the mines. On a full time basis a man named...
Read moreWhite House meets with Congress on immigration reform
July 11, 2009After two postponements, President Barack Obama recently carried out a key meeting with Democratic and Republican members of Congress at the White House There was guarded optimism from the immigrants’ rights movement in response to the...
Read moreMaking it harder to shut down plants
July 11, 2009A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill to make it tougher for companies to pull the rug out from under workers by shutting down plants. They say that the country’s 21-year- old plant closing...
Read moreSenators reveal details of health care public option
July 11, 2009Two of the senators who are writing the health care reform bill are talking now about details of the public option, the part of the plan that, despite support from 70 percent of the public, has...
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