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Public television faces federal budget cuts
From growing up watching "Sesame Street" to working for WBGU-PBS, senior Eric Browning said he couldn't imagine life without public broadcasting.
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Column: GOP’s war with unions to consolidate power, enrich big business
Republican lawmakers, under the guise of "budget cutting," have declared war on America's unionized workers.
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Column: GOP attacks public employees
All Republican governors' eyes are on Wisconsin and Ohio. If anti-union measures are successful in these two states, there is the strong possibility that similar policies will spread to other Republican led states. Our own Gov.
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Ohio Senate passes collective bargaining overhaul bill
The Ohio Senate voted 17-16 Wednesday to pass a bill that has stirred weeks of protests at the Statehouse, drawing more than 15,000 total protesters.
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Gap between US rich and poor quadruples since 1979
Income inequality is a growing trend in most advanced industrial nations, and the United States has the third largest gap between its rich and poor on average among the 30 nations studied in a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Study Finds Governments No More Likely To Cut Global Health Funding During Economic Crisis
There is no historical precedent for cutting global health funding during times of economic crisis, according to a study released one day after the U.S. House Majority Leader Eric I. Cantor defended such cuts at the Institute of Politics on Thursday.
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Column: As we near Social Security insolvency, we need backup plan
Throughout President Barack Obama's push for health care reform, the common portrayal was that health care reform was the equivalent of entitlement reform. All Congress would need to do is pass the Affordable Care Act to see long term solvency for all of America's entitlement needs.
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Obama in Cleveland to talk small business
President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Cleveland State University today along with members of his cabinet to hold a Winning the Future Forum to hear from small business owners and leaders on how to develop the economy.
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Recent economic trends deter graduation
Economic trends already in place are working against obtaining a university degree. It has nothing to do with an absence of academic discipline and much to do with funding at the federal and state level, which may terminate university education for too many prospective students.
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