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NY rally highlights health care’s human face
December 10, 2009Eric de la Cruz wasn't poor and just over five years ago, after visiting several doctors, Eric was told that he had a serious heart ailment that was curable by a transplant.
Read moreLiberals, centrists praise tentative health reform deal
December 10, 2009Health care reform advocates in Congress and some who have been resisting reform say the reported Senate compromise puts substantive health care reform within reach.
Read moreFaith leaders to Lieberman: filibuster lacks ‘conscience’
December 10, 2009NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Connecticut faith leaders launched a "conscience" ad campaign in local and national papers today calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to abandon plans to filibuster health care reform legislation.
Read morePell Grant program faces $18 billion shortfall
December 10, 2009The unexpected rising enrollment of college students has created an $18 billion shortfall in the Pell Grant program.
Read moreCandlelight vigils demand: Don’t kill public option
December 9, 2009Hundreds of candlelight vigils across the nation Dec. 8 protested a deal on health care reform in the Senate that caves in to the insurance lobby.
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