living conditions
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Insurers deny claims at shockingly high rate
A study recently released by the California Nurses Association /National Nurses Organizing Committee revealed that in California alone, more than…
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Refusing to leave a foreclosed home
Rosemary Williams is one of five women in Minnesota who have stood up to the banks, refusing to leave their…
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Wall Street to make profits betting on life insurance of the ill and elderly
The capitalists will never learn, nor will they relent on their heartless exploitation of the working class in this country.…
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One million reasons capitalism has to go
School districts across the country are reporting 75 to 100 percent increases in the number of enrolled schoolchildren experiencing homelessness…
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U.S. infant mortality and child poverty rates soar
The United States has one of the world’s worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty among capitalist…
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Outdated federal guidelines obscure rampant U.S. poverty
Outdated poverty guidelines have been used to measure poverty and assess social welfare programs in the United States for the…
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New Orleans workers still neglected four years after Katrina
It has been four years since the worst natural disaster of this decade. On Aug. 29, 2005, Category 5 Hurricane…
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California ordered to release 40,000 prisoners
On Aug. 4, a panel of federal judges ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population by 40,000…
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Razing of California’s social spending sparks militant response
Within hours after the California legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new state budget agreement that includes billions of…
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The essence of capitalist democracy
When it was announced that the giant insurance company AIG had rewarded its executives with more than $170 million in…
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