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Protecting workers from chemicals

February 7, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

A whole new area of occupational health is getting more attention from workers and their unions. The scientific term is Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP).

Systemic discrimination in home ownership

February 7, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

Home ownership is often regarded as the key to the American dream, including economic security, accumulating wealth and passing wealth on to the next generation. This is shown by the latest Survey of Consumer Finances, published...

Editorials

January 24, 2003

There’s still time to stop Bush’s war juggernaut George W. Bush has worked to convince us that an invasion of Iraq is inevitable and resistance futile. But consider the following: * Millions rallied against war on...

Size and history matter

January 24, 2003

The anti-war movement in the U.S., revitalized by the threats and bluster of George W. Bush, is already developing at a much faster pace than did the anti-Vietnam War movement. When I was 13, I went...

Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2002

January 23, 2003

For more than a decade now, the P.U.-litzer Prizes have gone to some of America’s stinkiest media performances each year. The competition was fierce as ever in 2002. Many journalistic pieces of work deserved recognition. Only...