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Best Way To Save Medicare, Offer It To Everyone
WASHINGTON - Medicare is arguably one of the nation’s most successful and cherished public insurance programs. The program covers approximately 47 million elderly and disabled Americans, and helps pay for hospital, physician visits, and prescription drugs.
City Worker Bargaining Rights Under Seige in Silicon Valley
Original source: Truthout.org
Presbyterians Embrace LGBT People
On Tuesday May 10, The Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) joined the ranks of a number of Christian denominations who are shedding their age-old prejudice against the LGBT community by removing from their constitution the requirement of "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness." (Christianity Today, May 12, 2011). This change, which will go into effect in July will open the door for local Presbyterian Church councils called Presbyteries to ordain LGBT clergy.
Coming to America: Tar sands oil from Canada?
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What is “tar sands oil” and what is the controversy over possibly building a pipeline for it from Canada into the United States? -- Bill Berkley, Omaha, NE Tar sands oil (or “tar sands”) is slang for bituminous sand, a mixture of sand, clay, water and an extremely gooey form of petroleum known as bitumen, which resembles tar in appearance.
Labor's Political Independence and the Stakes in the 2012 Election
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, National Press Club, Washington, DCMay 20, 2011Good morning. Thank you all for joining me here, and thank you to the National Press Club for inviting me to speak.
The ILO Must Condemn U.S. Anti-Union Legislation
In the United States, we take for granted that private-sector employers welcome unions like they welcome an outbreak of the Black Death.
Obama’s Middle East Policy: Something Old, Something New
On this episode we analyze and respond to the President's speech on the Middle East this week.
China: Industry Uses Sea as Giant "Trash Can"
Original source: China Daily
