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Health care struggles sweep Ohio
May 5, 2006As poll numbers for the Republicans who currently rule Ohio continue to drop to record lows, the issue of health care justice is emerging as a key electoral issue in this swing state. A series of...
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This Week in Labor
May 5, 2006Philly Carpenters on strike Five thousand Philadelphia area Carpenters returned to work May 3 after a two-day strike tied up work on major construction projects, including the Comcast tower in Center City. The workers won increased...
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Fox News/White House merger completed: Bill OReilly named Secretary of Defense
May 5, 2006One day after being named the new White House spokesman, former Fox News pundit Tony Snow announced that a deal merging Fox News and the Bush White House had been successfully completed. “The merger between Fox...
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Causes of the current oil price shocks
May 5, 2006Economists attending an April energy conference sponsored by Johns Hopkins University were in general agreement that a “slow-motion supply shock amounting now to a 2 million barrel per day aggregate disruption” was the chief cause of...
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Taking back Ohio!
May 5, 2006Under the banner headline “Take Back Ohio,” the Ohio AFL-CIO has put in place a 10-zone statewide political structure. The Take Back Ohio political organization, while working in cooperation with the area labor federations, is nevertheless...
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