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January 26, 2007NEW ORLEANS: Low-income residents fight to ‘come home’ Hurricane Katrina evicted elderly and low-income residents from their homes and tossed families into temporary housing across the country. Despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, including what some have called...
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Hotel room attendants tell their stories
January 26, 2007SAN JOSE, Calif. — The walls of the meeting room were lined with photos of dozens of women, their warm and friendly faces contrasting sharply with the close-ups of their swollen, work-scarred hands, mounted below. The...
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If clinics close, where will sick go?
January 26, 2007CHICAGO — The battle to fund human needs instead of war or tax breaks for the super-rich found its expression right in the heart of the Midwest. A serious fightback is emerging here, after newly elected...
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Communist Party leader appears On the Money
January 25, 2007Watch New York Communist Party Chair Elena Mora on CNBC’s “On the Money.”
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Colombia: murder and migration
January 23, 2007Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, the price is often measured in human lives and blood. Esperanza (she would risk her life, she says, if her real name...
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