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  • Wage theft, Bush-style

    Wage theft, Bush-style

    July 23, 2008

    In an unlikely team-up, impartial investigators from the Government Accountability Office joined a low-income workers’ advocate at congressional hearings July 15 to tell lawmakers that President Bush’s Labor Department has failed to enforce minimum wage and...

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  • Nas joins protest charges racism at Fox News

    Nas joins protest charges racism at Fox News

    July 23, 2008

    NEW YORK, N.Y. – A protest against Fox News will descend on its Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday at 2:00 pm. The media corporation's use of racism is the focus of the activity organized by , Moveon.org and...

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  • Campus workers end week-long strike

    Campus workers end week-long strike

    July 23, 2008

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of service workers returned to their jobs on University of California campuses July 21, after a week-long strike to protest the university’s stonewalling of their demands for fair compensation in contract negotiations...

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  • New scorecard flunks U.S. health system

    New scorecard flunks U.S. health system

    July 23, 2008

    A new national scorecard issued by the Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System gives failing scores to the U.S. health care system. The U.S. scores an average of 65 out of a possible...

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  • Edwards campaigns to end poverty

    Edwards campaigns to end poverty

    July 23, 2008 By Joelle Fishman

    Surrounded by an enthusiastic, multi-racial gathering of union and community residents, Senator John Edwards unveiled his Half in Ten campaign at Steel Point in Bridgeport, Connecticut last Thursday in the hot afternoon sun.

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