National – Page 1156 – People's World

New Yorkers fight war economy

February 14, 2003

NEW YORK – On the eve of the peace rally that is set to bring out hundreds of thousands against the war, people across this city are in the middle of a fight against what has...

Powell at UN caught in web of lies

February 14, 2003

NEW YORK – The Bush administration faced a widening credibility gap in its efforts to convince the world that a war to remove Saddam Hussein is imperative even if 100,000 Iraqis die in the Pentagon’s “Shock...

Philadelphia to cut city jobs

February 7, 2003

PHILADELPHIA – Mayor John Street presented his $3.3 billion Budget for fiscal year 2004 to the city council, Jan. 29, a budget that will cut more than 500 city jobs this year and 1,614 by 2008....

Systemic discrimination in home ownership

February 7, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

Home ownership is often regarded as the key to the American dream, including economic security, accumulating wealth and passing wealth on to the next generation. This is shown by the latest Survey of Consumer Finances, published...

Environment groups warn about Bush cuts

February 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

The United States’ largest environmental organizations are bracing themselves for what they say will be an unprecedented assault on environmental laws in the new Congress and throughout the next two years of the Bush administration. Across...