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Get insurance biz out of health care

April 10, 2003 By Carolyn Taylor

In February Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced HR-676, the United States National Health Insurance Act (NHIA), which would establish a national single-payer health care system. Conyers said his bill will free our nation “from having to...

Cuts hit Michigan kids

April 10, 2003

Michigan’s poor are having an increasingly hard time making ends meet according to a recently completed study and numerous social service organizations throughout the state. According to the 2003 Market Basket Survey (which measures the buying...

Tax attacks

April 10, 2003 By Art Perlo

April 15, the deadline for filing federal income tax returns, has arrived again. Where do your income tax dollars go?

EEOC could shut down

April 10, 2003

Approximately 10,000 private-sector charges and 1,200 federal-sector hearing cases will not be resolved this fiscal year if an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) furlough isn’t averted, according to EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominquez. The EEOC may...

National Clips

April 4, 2003

AROUND THE COUNTRY – In the first 12 days of war, vigils, teach-ins, conferences, art and music events, public prayer meetings and protests continued in cities, towns, and neighborhoods in the heartland and on the coasts....