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October
17, 2002
- Housing
for older Americans often unsafe; overpriced
- Ad
budgets dwarf dollars spent developing new drugs
- Another
1.4 million Americans lack health insurance, Census figures show
- Union
leader; “free trade” foe poised to become Brazil’s next president
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| September
30, 2002
- Household
incomes fall for first time since 1991;
Poverty rates show first increase since 1993, government says
- CEO
pay highest at firms that cook the books
- 2.2
million workers will exhaust benefits; find no jobs this year
- Lax
federal safety blamed in one of nation’s worst mine disasters
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Bush
pushes unknown right winger for federal bench;
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40
year-old Estrada could fill next Supreme Court spot.
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July
31, 2002
- Economists
see ‘jobless recovery’
(if they see any recovery at all!)
- The
state of U.S. nursing homes, and what you can do to improve them
- Wall
Street crash would have creamed a privatized Social Security system.
- Newly
passed special breaks cut corporate taxes to a near-record
low
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June 19,
2002
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Bush
and Congress serve super-rich
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At
trillion-dollar cost to taxpayers
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Boeing
gives top fighter work to South Korea
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Global
progress reported against child labor
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Korean
autoworkers prepared to strike.
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Them that’s got, gets;Corporate
Taxes Plunge to Historic Low
- Are
U.S. workers the world’s best off?
- South
Korean authorities crush Power Workers’ Strike
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March
8, 2002
- Ex-Enron
chief “fights for liquidity?”
Lay’s nest egg worth $900,000 a-year
- Bankruptcy
“reform” could make future Enrons more likely
- Jury
awards $755,000 to union organizers beaten at N.C. plant
- Threats
to fire members and bankrupt union
Fail to crush anti-privatization strike in Korea
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March
1, 2002
- Union
voters could rule at polls
- Recession
takes a toll on billionaires
- Gear
up for Workers Memorial Day 2002
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February
26, 2002
- Aerospace companies
moving to Mexico
- Losing world leadership
in aerospace;
Does anyone see a trend here?
- Declaring war
on U.S. workers
- Bush names OSHA
foe chief Labor Department lawyer
- Startling charges
from Capitol Hill Newspaper:
Enron paid DeLay staff for secret deregulation push
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February
19, 2002
- “Good”
economic news ignores working families
- Another
day older and deeper in debt
- Wonder
about Privatizing Social Security? Take the Test!
- Business
and labor unite; urge solutions to health care crisis
- The
Kids are All Right! Young
Americans Fight for Worker Rights
- Public
demands severance pay for Enron employees
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