health care
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Workers need paid family leave
The writer is a statewide delegate and co-chair of the Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee of United University Professions (UUP),…
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AIDS drug company Abbott Laboratories inflates prices to reap more profits
Breakthroughs in medical research in the mid 1990s provided new hope for people infected with HIV, the virus that causes…
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Health care in crisis: Symptom of a diseased system
The United States has the largest health expenditures per capita of any country in the world—16 percent of the U.S.…
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Cuba records lowest infant mortality rate
This article first appeared in Cuba's Granma on Jan. 3, 2007. Cuban infant mortality rate, 5.3 deaths per every 1,000…
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New York commission recommends hospital closures to cut costs
Close seven nursing homes, nine functioning hospitals, reduce at least a dozen more to the point of uselessness and eliminate…
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World AIDS Day: Profit system rules while millions die
As governments around the world struggle desperately to provide treatment and care to millions of poor and oppressed people infected…
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AIDS: Grappling with a global crisis
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a day focused on remembering the tens of millions of people who have died…
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Striking janitors win contract in Houston
On Nov. 20, 5,300 Houston janitors won a contract battle against five large cleaning companies. Janitors waged a month-long, militant…
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Immigrant workers reinstated at Smithfield
On Nov. 16, over 1,000 North Carolina meat packers stopped work and walked out of the largest pork processing plant…
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New U.S. policy denies health care to immigrant children
A new federal policy makes the children of undocumented immigrants ineligible to automatically qualify for Medicaid. Immigrant parents will have…
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