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  • Teens and sex: Is the Internet accurate?

    Teens and sex: Is the Internet accurate?

    May 30, 2009

    ORIGINAL SOURCE May 29 Below the Belt: A Column by NOW President Kim Gandy We live in a society obsessed with sex. Our relationship with sex, however, is conflicted and more than a little dysfunctional. Mixed...

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  • Celebrating their fifth

    Celebrating their fifth

    May 30, 2009

    Gay couples who brought the landmark lawsuit that led to the first legalized gay marriages in the United States at reunion in Newton Mass, May, 17, celebrate their fifth anniversaries, five years after Massachusetts became the...

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  • New foreclosure protection for renters

    New foreclosure protection for renters

    May 30, 2009

    Original source: You may think that not owning a home will protect you from foreclosure - but an estimated 40 percent of households facing eviction due to foreclosure are renters, not homeowners. Many renters have been...

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  • Community health centers are key ingredient for reform

    Community health centers are key ingredient for reform

    May 30, 2009

    Marking the 100th day since passage of President Obama's economic recovery act, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week touted the special role her department has played in moving stimulus money into the economy....

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  • Labor, allies urge ‘development bank’ to create jobs

    Labor, allies urge ‘development bank’ to create jobs

    May 29, 2009

    The decline in initial claims for jobless pay announced by the U.S. Labor Department this week was greeted as a “good sign” by Heidi Shierholz, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. But it only underlines...

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