John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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U.S.
$189 billion in profits to buy elections, but none for jobs
October 4, 2010America's corporations, awash with a record $189 billion in profits earned in the last business quarter, are spending their money not to create jobs, but to buy the midterm election next month.
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World
U.S. apologizes to Guatemala
October 4, 2010Sixty-four years after it used the people of Guatemala as guinea pigs in a study of venereal diseases, the U.S. government last week issued an official apology.
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Labor
A peek at how unions “kick ass” in an election
October 1, 2010Regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that the labor movement knows how to "kick ass," when it comes to elections.
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Labor
Avondale shipyard workers hold save jobs rally
September 29, 2010When Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast region five years ago many of the workers at the Avondale shipyard near New Orleans stayed behind when the area was evacuated.
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Opinion
Dems keep House and Senate!
September 28, 2010New polls show a much closer race in November.
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U.S.
GOP facing multiple hurdles in election drive
September 27, 2010Republicans hoping to seize control of Congress on Election Day face a week of obstacles that are expected to complicate their plans.
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U.S.
GOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam
September 24, 2010It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."
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Opinion
Health care law includes no lifetime limits
September 24, 2010Perhaps the most important piece of the new health care law that kicked in Sept. 23 is no more lifetime coverage caps.
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