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No applause here for Bush budget
February 8, 2002Any doubts about President Bush’s priorities were erased when he submitted his Fiscal Year 2003 budget to Congress Feb. 4. Dubbed a budget “that leaves no military contractor behind,” the $2.13 trillion spending and tax package...
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Gov. calls for relief for California unemployed
February 8, 2002LOS ANGELES – In his annual State of the State address in January, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, called on state legislators to enact to bring much-needed relief to California’s unemployed. Two more sources of information...
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Welfare groups rally in D.C.
February 8, 2002WASHINGTON – Lawmakers were so busy Feb. 5 with the Enron debacle they had no time to hear from 300 poor people from across the country here to demand jobs or benefits to support their children....
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Another world is possible
February 8, 2002On Jan. 31, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney warned the World Economic Forum (WEF) that working people had come to the group’s annual meeting, held Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, to “challenge Enron economics at home and...
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20,000 tell world forum people before profits
February 8, 2002March is peaceful NEW YORK – Over 20,000 peaceful protestors converged on the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here last weekend to protest the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting being held there. The WEF, which traditionally meets in Davos,...
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