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More families depend on school lunch program
Since the inception of reduced-price or free school lunch programs, students from low-income families have depended on and utilized them.…
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Wachovia drug laundering settlement: class justice
Wachovia, a banking subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, agreed March 17 to pay a $160 million settlement for its…
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Press-Telegram-Mayor hopeful has different approach
LONG BEACH - Stevie Merino isn't your typical mayoral candidate. The 21-year-old Cerritos College student, born and raised in Long…
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San Francisco transit agency slashes service
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency heard public comment on Feb. 26 regarding a proposed 50 percent fare hike on…
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Senate passes paltry ‘jobs bill’
The U.S. Senate passed a $15 billion "jobs bill" Feb. 24. The money allocated amounts to a little more than…
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Long-term unemployment rising despite “recovery”
Despite rosy projections of "economic recovery," millions of workers remain out of work, without savings, and exhausting their unemployment benefits.…
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Injustice in the pretrial system
A version of this article has been previously circulated through other sources. This version was edited for PSLweb with the…
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San Francisco ANSWER holds benefit for Haiti
ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) San Francisco held a well-attended benefit for Haiti Feb. 7.…
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Behind the conviction of Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui
One of the vile byproducts of the "global war on terror," now in its ninth year, has been the "commodification"…
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Right-wing politicians in Congress move to overturn gay-marriage bill
Right-wing politicians are moving to block a recent District of Columbia Council bill that would give legal recognition to same-sex…
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