health
Supreme Court blocks Texas attempt to shut women’s health facilities
June 27, 2016This will help keep America on the path toward greater equity and toward full recognition that women have the right to control their own bodies.
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Veterans’ health care in crosshairs of privatization forces
June 16, 2016A blue-ribbon commission is set to recommend that private health companies take over from the federally-run VA. Yet no one has asked veterans what they think.
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Consumers League warns teens about summer jobs that can kill
June 10, 2016"Always follow safety training. Working safely and carefully may slow you down, but ignoring safe work procedures is a fast track to injury."
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Labor Secretary: Cleaning the environment will boost economy
June 10, 2016Cleaning up the environment is "an economic tool" to provide good jobs for U.S. workers, he says.
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Gay PW writer wins the wine at Yale reunion storyfest
June 9, 2016"This story," I said, "goes a little beyond quirky. Maybe kinky is the more appropriate word." I set the scene in the dark shadows of AIDS in mid-80s NYC.
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