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Health care crisis up close & personal
October 6, 2006I work in Philadelphia with a group that is trying to get health care for all. Our overall goal is the passage of legislation that would create a government funded, single-payer health care system in the...
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New Yorkers aim to shift Congress
October 6, 2006HYDE PARK, N.Y. — People have long said that New York, with at least four vulnerable Republican-held congressional seats, is a battleground state. And as national scandals continue to engulf the Republican Party, local Democrats are...
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Chicagoans fight surging utility rates
October 6, 2006CHICAGO — With 57,000 households having their heat shut off, people unable to cook, no hot water for bathing, and the chill of fall setting in, low-income Chicagoans are looking to use the upcoming election for...
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Bound and dug in debt and glut
October 6, 2006Two stories roiled Massachusetts this summer. Seemingly unrelated, the two are connected by the contradictions between incalculable wealth and spreading poverty, a glut of capital and deepening individual and governmental debt, and extraordinary monopolization and growing...
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N.Y. transit strike assessed
October 6, 2006NEW YORK — Several hundred transit workers, labor activists and academics gathered Sept. 28 for a conference titled “Assessing the NYC Transit Strike of 2005.” In his welcoming remarks, Gregory Mantsios, director of CUNY’s Center for...
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