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Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Tell Congress to Support President Obama's Plan for Health ReformThe President's Plan for Health Reform “It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government." – PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ...
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UFCW | Health Care - A voice For working America.Planning a community event in support of health care? DOWNLOAD THE AUGUST MOBILIZATION GUIDE for tips and materials you can use. DOWNLOAD THE AUGUST MOBILIZATION GUIDE
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'Evil and Orwellian' – America's right turns its fire on NHS | World news | The GuardianThe National Health Service has become the butt of increasingly outlandish political attacks in the US as Republicans and conservative campaigners rail against Britain's "socialist" system as part of a tussle to defeat Barack Obama's proposals for broader government involvement in healthcare. ...
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Global Warming Efforts Called ‘Immoral’ in AfricaAfricans are battling AIDS, malaria, lung infections, intestinal diseases, war, malnutrition and other problems that kill millions each year, “and yet day after day, Africans are told the biggest threat we face is global warming.” That’s the complaint of leading African social worker Fiona ...
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Robert Kuttner: Faint PraiseRobert Kuttner Faint Praise President Obama wanted health insurance reform in the worst way. And at the rate things are going, he is likely to get it. Let's review the bidding -- first the substance, then the politics. America spends 15 percent of its GDP covering far less than the ...
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Gen. Barry McCaffrey: Breaking Our Addiction to PrisonGen. Barry McCaffrey Breaking Our Addiction to Prison Our traditional justice system has been inadequate to the task of breaking the cycle of substance abuse and crime. Four out of every five offenses are committed by someone with a drug or alcohol problem; and we just keep locking them up! ...
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Eric Deggans: NBC's Today Focuses on Obama's Remarks About the Gates Arrest, Not Health CareEric Deggans NBC's Today Focuses on Obama's Remarks About the Gates Arrest, Not Health Care President Obama took an hour of prime time Wednesday to try explaining one of the most complex notions in government today -- why America needs to substantially change and expand its national health ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Some Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners - NYTimes.comSome Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners “WHEREVER you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense,” says the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Those words were first heard by New York audiences in February 1938 , as America continued to reel from hard ...
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John Crace: Almost every social problem stems from one root cause - inequality, argue two British academics | Society | The GuardianAnother day, another headline: today obesity, tomorrow teenage pregnancy, the day after crime figures. Social problems operate a revolving-door policy these days. As soon as one goes away, another turns up. For the most part, these problems are regarded as entirely separate from each other. ...
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The City that Ended Hunger :: Belo Horizonte, BrazilA city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I ...
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