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House bill: Taxes the wealthy to keep America healthy
July 17, 2009The health care bill presented by the House leadership this week pays for the health insurance of the 20 percent of the people who cannot afford it with a surtax on the richest 1 percent. Nothing...
Read moreSteelworker head hails House health reform bill
July 17, 2009PITTSBURGH -- Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW), issued the following statement July 15 in response to the U.S. House of Representatives’ health care reform bill: “Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) and...
Read moreCrowd to Calif. gov: Dont let our state go up in smoke!
July 16, 2009SAN FRANCISCO ― “Cutting services is not a quick fix. We need to tax the big oil companies, we need to restore the vehicle license tax. We need to increase revenues, we can’t live off cutting...
Read moreCOMMENTARY Hepatitis C silent but deadly
July 16, 2009As we get older, we tend to get tired sooner than in our younger days and find ourselves tacking naps, we also have the occasional lapse of memory and joint pain. For most, these symptoms of...
Read moreCommunity groups slam banks, back consumer agency
July 16, 2009ST. LOUIS -- Darryl Moore, a local ACORN member, pointed up at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia Securities building here on July 14 and told the World: 'They're sticking us up. They're using our tax dollars to pay...
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