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California takes up health care, election financing, drivers licenses
February 10, 2006As its 2006 session gets into full swing, the California Legislature is considering measures dealing with health care, publicly funded elections, and driver’s licenses for all. Senate Bill 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act introduced...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
February 10, 2006Asbestos bill toxic The interests of asbestos makers and their insurers “have become paramount and the needs of victims have become secondary” in the asbestos bill being debated in the Senate, said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney...
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Six more weeks of winter?
February 10, 2006Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from his secure, undisclosed location to make television appearances following the president’s State of the Union Address, but then immediately returned to his hiding place — indicating that America may be...
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Shift to service jobs
February 10, 2006Dramatic effects for the U.S. working class are being wrought by the sustained shift to service from production occupations. The shift is powered by both globalization and technological revolution. One effect of this shift in the...
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N.Y. gov. shorts schools
February 10, 2006NEW YORK — Boasting that he was delivering tax cuts for working people and increased funding for schools, Republican Gov. George Pataki submitted his final executive budget Jan. 18 in Albany. The proposal was immediately condemned,...
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