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The Silent War: Taking on guns and gangs with positive alternatives
August 10, 2007CHICAGO — Growing up on this city’s Southwest Side, I could never get used to street gangs, shootings and witnessing neighborhood friends die from violence. Why do so many youth join street gangs? How can someone...
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Company picks workers pockets
August 10, 2007CANTON, OHIO — Can a company make deductions from its employees’ paychecks for health care, child support and payments to a credit union, and then pocket the money? That’s what steelworkers at the closed Stark Ceramics...
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Local health centers key to universal care
August 10, 2007As the struggle for increased health care access is approaching a new peak of intensity, advocates for universal health care should understand the role of community health clinics in caring for vulnerable communities. Advocates have dedicated...
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Utah mine was unsafe
August 10, 2007Rescue teams were still racing to reach six coal miners who remained trapped 1,500 feet below ground a day after an Aug. 6 collapse at the Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah. The collapse was so...
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Young people losing out in strong economy
August 10, 2007“This is far and away the strongest global economy I’ve seen in my business lifetime,” Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson declared recently during a visit to the headquarters of Fortune magazine. Really? Strong for whom? For young...
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