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Health Care Coverage for All, But at What Cost?
Source: NJBIZ
Business trade group opposes plan Original Source By Thomas Gaudio An advocacy group last week launched a nationwide campaign in 53 cities, including Trenton, that is pushing for everyone in the country to have health care coverage through federal legislation. Health Care for America Now-a…
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Grey areas undermine tax reform of unwedded bliss
Source: The Irish Independent
Original Source By Fionnan Sheahan COHABITING couples are the fastest growing family type in the country. According to the last Census, the total number of cohabiting couples was 121,800 in 2006 up from 77,600 in 2002. They represented 11.6pc of all family units in 2006…
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Garamendi Launches a National Health Care Reform Campaign to Keep Presidential Candidates in Check
Source: California Chronicle
Original Source California Political Desk LOS ANGELES Bolstered by nurses, doctors, labor unions, small business owners and women's groups, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has unveiled a $40 million national health care reform campaign to hold health insurance companies accountable and provide quality, affordable health care…
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Health care in spotlight: Coalition starts national campaign to push for U.S. system's reform
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Original Source By TAMMIE SMITH TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER As a summer intern with the Virginia Organizing Project, Gabrielle Brown has spent the past few weeks knocking on doors, asking residents about community issues and health care. She has gotten an earful. One single mother of…
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Immigrant arrests sever parents, children
Source: Associated Press State & Local Wire
Original Source Brothers Ismael, Luis and Edwin Valeriano are U.S. citizens, but their lives have been upended by the arrest of their father as part of an escalating crackdown on illegal immigrants. In March, the boys' 38-year-old father, Ismael Valeriano, a single parent from Mexico…
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Work past retirement age? Avoid pitfalls, penalties
Source: New York Newsday
Original Source BY MARK MILLER Tribune Media Services So you're getting ready to retire, but think you'll want to keep working in some fashion after you leave. Maybe you'll downshift to a part-time position with your former employer, or do some consulting. Congratulations on making…
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Raising awareness of need for child helmets
Source: Vietnam News Service
Original Source NHA TRANG - The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIP Foundation) organized a concert promoting the Helmet for Kids (HFK) campaign in Nha Trang City on Monday, sending out the message "Put a Helmet on your Child". The HFK proceedings were dedicated in honor…
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CoRMSA Report Outlines Way Forward Following Xenophobic Attacks
Source: CoRMSA
The recent violence against non-South Africans across the country is not a new phenomenon nor is it likely to end with deaths that shocked South Africa in May. The violence is but the most recent episode in a long history of the exclusion and marginalisation…
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Island to observe Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Saturday
Source: The Royal Gazette
Original Source by Owain Johnston-Barnes Abuse of seniors will not be tolerated in Bermuda, the Minister of Culture and Social Rehabilitation vowed yesterday. Dale Butler was speaking in advance of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, this Sunday, and he also praised the work of the…
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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
Source: The Washington Post
New Orleans's Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…
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