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Safety and health starts with changing the workplace

After more than nine years of stalling, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finally taken the important step of establishing a federal regulation requiring employers to furnish, at no cost, all protective equipment...

GOP recruits millionaires to replace those who fly the coop

NEW YORK — Republicans are hoping to retake control of Congress by recruiting right-wing millionaires to run for office in districts now represented by pro-labor and antiwar representatives elected in 2006. Fearful of a historic shift...

Home foreclosures are now at 2 million per year: What you can do to save homes

Home foreclosures will remain at the rate of 2 million per year well into 2008. Before the crisis is over, 3 million families — homeowners and renters — may have been kicked out of their homes,...

Shades of Green: Dec. 1

WORLD NOTES: Dec. 1

South Korea: Gov’t promotes North-South integration South Korea’s National Assembly received a proposal from the South’s unification ministry Nov. 22 for an “Inter-Korean Cooperation Project.” The five-year plan was propelled by talks in October between leaders...