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BTL:Opponents Prepare to Challenge Bush Budget Cuts and Drive to... ...Privatize Social Security ~ Interview with Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 5:08am PST
Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate As he was escorted handcuffed down the capitol steps, Owens turned to reporters and TV cameras. “I’m disabled!” he screamed. “I need housing! That’s all!”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:55pm PST
Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies Debt due to medical bills is the largest single cause of personal bankruptcies in the United States, a newly published study on the Health Affairs web site reported. About half of those filing bankruptcy in 2001 did so because of medical bills resulting from illness or injury. What is most unexpected about the data is that most individuals or couples who went bankrupt were not part of the 45 million uninsured. Nearly 76 percent had health insurance at the start of their illness....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:56pm PST
US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression The budget released by the Bush administration Monday provides for $2.57 trillion in spending, but two thirds of this falls under programs already mandated by Congress, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation and the payment of interest on the burgeoning national debt. The main focus of the budget document is so-called discretionary spending, which requires annual appropriations by Congress....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:55pm PST
Bush’s budget: government by fraud and lies The most important feature of the new budget released by the Bush administration on Monday is that it is not, in any serious sense of the word, a budget at all. It is a monumental fraud, aimed at concealing fiscal reality and usurping decisions on spending that, under longstanding US constitutional procedures, are reserved to Congress rather than the executive branch....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:54pm PST
Bush's New $2.5 Trillion Budget Boosts Pentagon Spending, Slashes Domestic Programs President Bush sent Congress a federal budget yesterday that some say reads like a hit list against almost every social program paid for by US taxpayers. It calls for the elimination of some 150 government programs. One out of every three of the targeted programs concerns education....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:15pm PST
Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid At the center of the sweeping domestic spending cuts unveiled by the Bush administration Monday is the proposal for a major assault on Medicaid, the main government program that pays for health care for the poor and disabled in the US....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:55pm PST
Fight or Walk: the Chicago Transit Fare Strike The purpose of this article is to help us discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our fare strike campaign in Chicago, as well as to help groups in other cities who want to organize around transit issues. When we first decided to do this campaign, there wasn’t much to read on how other people had organized fare strikes. Hopefully this can be useful to other groups who want to use similar tactics....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 2:12pm PST
MoveOn Launches Ad Campaign Highlighting Benefit Cuts in President's Social Security Pla MoveOn Launches Ad Campaign Highlighting Benefit Cuts in President's Social Security Plan; Large TV Ad Buys Aim at Members of Congress Who May Support Privatization; Print Ads to Highlight 'Phony Crisis'...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 11:10pm PST
Social Security Tele-Truth Campaign Join The Tele-Truth Campaign To Call the DIRTY THREE!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 7:44pm PST
BTL:White House Campaign to Privatize Social Security Based on... ...Phony Crisis ~ Interview with economist John Miller, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 5:04am PST
"Fight or Walk: The Chicago Transit Fare Strike" The purpose of this article is to help us discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our fare strike campaign in Chicago, as well as to help groups in other cities who want to organize around transit issues. When we first decided to do this campaign, there wasn’t much to read on how other people had organized fare strikes. Hopefully this can be useful to other groups who want to use similar tactics....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:11am PST
Public Editor: Why the NY Times Doesn't Cover Environmental and Social Justice Issues! I just received the following e-mail from the NY Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent. My request: The NY Times should start an environmental and social justice section...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:52am PST
Public Citizen Launches WorstPills.org, a Website Listing Dangerous Prescription Drugs Public Citizen Launches WorstPills.org, an Online Database Listing Dangerous Prescription Drugs and Alternatives; New 'Worst Pills, Best Pills' Book Also Released...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 10:58pm PST
Tsunami: Providing Relief, Promoting Social Justice IN THE WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI:
** Demand increased U.S. aid
** Demand immediate debt cancellation
** Donate to grassroots relief efforts (details below)
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Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 12:12am PST
Bush administration targets medical care for the poor The federal government has dispatched auditors to state capitals around the country in an effort to rein in the cost of Medicaid, the program designed to provide medical coverage for the poor. The program also pays for about 70 percent of the nation’s nursing home patients....
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 9:27am PST
CHICAGO TRANSIT FARE STRIKE: So Far, So Good... One day after fare strike begins, Chicago Transit Authority delays decision on service cuts and layoffs for 6 months. Decision to double paratransit fares in January also reversed, to be looked at again in the spring....
Posted: Sat, Dec 18, 2004 5:13pm PST
In America’s Industrial Heartland Can’t Pay Won’t Pay Campaign takes Off Anger at corporations and their politicians finds concrete expression in North West Indiana...
Posted: Sat, Dec 18, 2004 11:05am PST
50% of SF Poor Denied Emergency Food While the rich celebrate the Money Season, made possible by the labor of the workingclass, much of the workingclass goes to charity for food, and often there is not enough food for all, in a country that has the capacity to feed the world....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 6:04am PST
Hungry and homeless ranks swell in US cities The demand for emergency shelter and food in US cities has risen significantly over the past year, straining a tattered social safety net beyond the breaking point, according to a report released Tuesday by the US Conference of Mayors. The “Hunger and Homeless Survey” covering America’s 27 largest cities showed that requests for food aid increased by 14 percent in 2004, while the demand for shelter rose by 6 percent....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:07pm PST
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