National
Pressure grows to resolve Illinois state budget crisis
June 26, 2009Chicago — With the clock ticking toward a “doomsday budget” that would devastate state services and cause massive layoffs, six thousand union members, seniors, children, social service agency workers and their clients flooded the Illinois statehouse...
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Make the Dream Act a reality, immigrant youth say
June 26, 2009CHICAGO – Most people are familiar with the popular catchphrase, “youth are the future.” Youth coined in this saying are dubbed to become the next generation of educated leaders in their communities and their country. Young...
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EDITORIAL: ACES is aces
June 26, 2009The U.S. House of Representatives can take the first step towards saving our planet and reviving our economy by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). This bill has the broad support of labor...
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Book review: Can capitalism last?
June 26, 2009New book by American Communist explores answers to question of our timeBOOK REVIEWCan Capitalism Last? By Daniel Rubin , 2009, 196 pp, $10 “Marxism is dead. Socialism is dead. What better proof than the collapse of...
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Health care mess: how we got into it, how to get out of it
June 26, 2009In 1979, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne, at the recommendation of some labor union officials, named me to be a “consumer commissioner” on the City of Chicago Health Systems Agency (HSA) Board of...
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