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No Child law hurts kids, schools

September 26, 2003

CHICAGO – The letters were sent in August. Hundreds of thousands of parents received the news. Their children were going to failing schools.

Health crisis fueled by greed

September 19, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The escalating health care crisis, while causing an ever-widening circle of human misery, is also revealing the ugly underbelly of U.S. capitalism. The health crisis is giving rise to a raft of illegal and fraudulent practices,...

Retirees reject Medicare drug bills

September 19, 2003

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It rained and it poured, but still 1,000 retirees came out on Capitol Hill, Sept. 4, to stop the privatization of Medicare. Some were in wheel chairs, still they bravely held up their...

National Clips

September 19, 2003

MONROE, Mich.: Marching for jobs and clean air As President Bush addressed a captive audience at Detroit Edison’s coal-fired electrical generation plant Sept. 15, hundreds of environmentalists rallied outside the complex protesting the administration’s “Clear Skies”...

Texas redistricting plan threatens equality

September 19, 2003

AUSTIN, Texas – The return to Texas from Albuquerque, N.M., by Texas state Senator John Whitmire (D-Houston) broke the back of his fellow Democratic state senators’ fight to stop the Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Tom...