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There is a quiet park on the way to the Osaka ports, still in the city but not near any subway exits, far from the crowds of the Tsuruhashi mall to its east and two blocks away the highway churns past at a dizzying speed.* The park’s name according to the city is Tsumori, but for the workers and unemployed who have dug themselves into its contours, it’s known as Nishi-Nari....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 10:47pm PDT
...Restore Funding for Some Social Programs ~ Interview with Anita Dancs, research director of the National Priorities Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 6:27am PDT
Governor of California to give commencement speech at Santa Monica College. After months of protest and pleas from both students and faculty not to schedule the governator. The president and the board of trustees of SMC have gone ahead despite the objections....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 2:28pm PDT
The child poverty rate in the US has steadily risen every year from 2000, according to several recent reports and press releases from public policy institutes and government agencies....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 7:00am PDT
As part of ongoing budget negotiations, states in the US are developing proposals for deep cuts in Medicaid, the health care program that serves over 50 million low-income Americans, including children, the disabled and the elderly. The attack on Medicaid is a major component of the systematic destruction of social programs in the United States....
Posted: Wed, May 11, 2005 8:20am PDT
Jeb and GW Bush force Florida's public transit to a standstill, promoting petroleum consumption monopoly.....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 8:48pm PDT
American Public Health Association Chides Congress for Its Passage of Billions of Cuts to Medicaid and Inadequate Investment in Public Health Programs...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:59pm PDT
Campaign for America's Future: Bush Plan Cuts Social Security Benefits, Offers No Solutions for Economic Woes, Rising Gas Prices...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:57pm PDT
Shoes are considered one of the first things humans made. Some made wooden shoes, some sandals from grass, some boots from fur and skins. Over time, fashion superceded utility and shoes became status symbols, as well as social factors, such as high heels and China's foot binding......
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 8:43am PDT
A weekly cartoon from Dirtworshiping Heathens Sketchbook...
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Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 12:57pm PDT
National Council on Disability Calls for Immediate Changes in Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 10:40am PDT
CHICAGO, April 13, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 1:50am PDT
CHICAGO — “Privatizing Social Security may be good business for Charles Schwab, but it’s a bad deal for working Americans,” Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon told the multiracial and multigenerational crowd of 300 that overflowed the sidewalk in front of the giant investment firm’s office here. “The stock market is a gamble,” Gannon continued, “I’ve got a mother who is 83, a daughter who is 22 and I’m 52. Privatization puts us all in jeopardy.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 2:50pm PDT
Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is really a cumulative benefit reduction plan which would spell the death of Social Security....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 9:17am PST
New Research From EBRI: Current Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:47am PST
Two recent reports cast light on the impact of growing social inequality in the US. The first, the annual inventory of the very rich compiled this month by the business magazine Forbes, tracks the wealth of the world’s billionaires, and their increasing numbers in the US. The second is the “report card” issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on the state of the infrastructure in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 7:14am PST
The GOP Schemes To Steal Resources From The Disabled & Mentally Ill....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 5:23am PST
n the wake of a recent report that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized drugs being imported from abroad intended for American citizens, Men' Health Network would like to reiterate its concern regarding drug importation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:49pm PST
gather for the 25th anniversary of food not bombs at the biotech protests/green and black urban gathering this june in philly!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 1:19pm PST