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GOP blocks vote to preserve overtime pay

April 2, 2004

WASHINGTON (PAI) – The average worker affected by the Bush administration’s new overtime regulations earns $51,000-$55,000 yearly, including overtime, or around $1,000 a week, according to the Economic Policy Institute. With overtime pay at a little...

School budget battle looms in New York

April 2, 2004

BUFFALO, N.Y. – As the deadline for New York’s 2004-5 budget approaches, education rights activists are demanding the state find money to comply with last year’s ruling that every child be provided with a “meaningful high...

National Clips

April 2, 2004

APPLETON, Wis.:Protesters vow to ‘disappear’ Bush Bush arrived in the home town of the Houdini Museum March 30 to pick up campaign contributions and convince the Republican faithful that 83,000 jobs did not vanish in Wisconsin...

White House targets Medicare, Social Security

April 2, 2004

Muttering into a microphone he thought was off, John Kerry called the Bush administration “the most crooked, lying group I have ever seen.” That certainly describes the recent torrent of lies poured out by George W....

Canton rallies for pensions

March 26, 2004

CANTON, Ohio – This steel city reverberated with the spirit of fight-back against corporate abuse and the politicians who front for them, on March 15. One hundred fifty steelworkers, families and friends rallied in front of...