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Sick children to get health care
March 30, 2010After some strong arm twisting by the Obama administration the insurance industry has backed down from challenging the section of the new health reform law.
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There they go again! GOP denies jobless benefits to thousands
March 30, 2010When Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma left for his "Spring Break" on March 29, he also left some 200,000 jobless Americans without badly needed money to provide for their families.
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Time for big, bold federal jobs program
March 30, 2010Jobs for America NOW is organizing meetings with lawmakers while they are home for the Easter recess to urge them to pass Rep. George Miller's $75 billion jobs bill.
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Unions, passengers unite to save mass transit and jobs
March 30, 2010Thousands of transit workers and passengers rallied at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on March 27 to demand federal funding for public transit systems nationwide.
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Obama makes pro-labor recess appointments
March 29, 2010President Obama is bypassing Republican obstructionists in the Senate this week and naming 15 people to administration positions, which the GOP has blocked for an average of 214 days.
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