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•		"Health Insurance Company Rules" (short video)
•		What McCain Economic Policy? (Harold Meyerson)
•		U.S. Health Care: High Cost, Low Quality (New York Times)
•		"Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion" (Naomi Klein)
•		"Irresponsible Bush Clueless on the Economy" (and McCain is Bush's Echo)
•		"It's the Economists, Stupid!"
•		Dean Baker on the Bush/McCain Tax Cuts for the Rich and the Housing Meltdown
•		Three Women Elected to Top Three Officer Positions at American Federation of Teachers
•		Wal-Mart Guilty!
•		McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA
•		From Uprising to Movement: Five Ideas (David Sirota)
•		Major New Universal Health Care Coalition Launched: Health Care for America Now! (Holt-Baker and Newby press releases)
•		McCain's War Record vs. his Senate Record: Wisconsin Vets and a new AFL-CIO TV Ad
•		AFL-CIO Launches Union Veterans Council
•		Weekly Paychecks Take Hit as Job Market Deteriorates (EPI)
•		The Fourth of July, and Where Does John McCain Go? To the Country Where they Kill Union Organizers --Colombia! (includes video)
•		Leo Gerard, President, United Steelworkers: "Seize the Momemt--This is Our Time!" (video)
•		Misunderstandings May Cause Some to Miss Out on Disaster Aid
•		Congress Votes to Extend Unemployment Benefits
•		WMC's "Attack Dog" Politics Questioned
•		Our Great Economic U-Turn (Thomas Frank)
•		AFL-CIO Ask a Working Woman Survey Results: American Women Need a Raise--and More Rest!
•		AFL-CIO Votes to Endorse Senator Barack Obama for President
•		American Negotiator on China Joining World Trade Organization: We Got it Wrong
•		Review of "The Big Squeeze"
•		The Growing Power of the Fair Trade Uprising (David Sirota)
•		Wisconsin Now About Average in State and Local Tax Spending
•		Winning Videos of the AFL-CIO "Turn Around America" Contest
•		McCain and Big Oil (video)
•		Dan Rather on "Corporate News"
•		McCain Supports Failed Trade Policies
•		Strike Threat Wins Aramark Contract
•		Wages Surge for Top 1%
•		McCain's Attack on Vets
•		Gas Taxes Buy Roads, Maintenance and Transit!
•		Union Nurses: Mandatory Overtime Hurts Patient Care
•		Another "McCain Revealed" Video
•		AFL-CIO and ITUC Protest Violation of Labor Rights in Iraq
•		"Let's Be Serious" (Op-Ed by Bob Herbert, New York Times)
•		Democracy in America is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck
•		GM Lays Off Janesville Workers -- And Raises CEO's Pay!
•		The REAL McCain (video)
•		Paul Ryan Drinks McCain Health Insurance Kool-Aid
•		Kenosha Education Association Joins AFL-CIO: Welcome!
•		Trade, Jobs, Wages: Are Public's Worries About Globalization Justified? (EPI)
•		Inflation and Stagnant Wages Hit European Workers and Middle Class, Too
•		The Financial Crisis: An Interview With George Soros
•		All You Ever Wanted to Know About the Health Care Debate: the Campaign for America's Future "Health Care for All" Home Page
•		The World Food Crisis (by John Nichols)
•		The Democrats 'Free Trade' Divide
•		Wisconsin Eye Video of Wisconsin Labor History Society Conference: "An Historical Perspective on Immigration in Wisconsin: The Impact on Workers, Unions"
•		Washington State Plans for the Future of Health Care Reform (Healthy Wisconsin a Model)
•		Have at Least $3000 in Income? File Tax Return to Get Stimulus Payment!
•		McCain’s Health Care Plan: Increases Taxes, Decreases Coverage
•		What 8 Years of BushCheney Have Done to Our Economy (by Jim Hightower)
•		Health Care Crunch Climbs the Occupational Ladder (EPI)
•		Newsflash: Populism is Popular! (David Sirota)
•		What Would You Do With Three Trillion Dollars?
•		How Bush Administration Ignored Housing/Mortgage Crisis
•		"Missing: Our Trade Strategy" (America's trade policy lacks a preference for Americans), op-ed by Harold Meyerson
•		Income Inequality Grows in Wisconsin
•		Bush and McCain: Endless War...On the Installment Plan (Move-On video--one minute)
•		McCain: "No one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have" (click here to play)
•		"Taming the Beast" (the need for regulation of US financial institutions), by Paul Krugman (NYT)
•		Rich Investment Banks: Bailouts with Our Money; Ordinary Folks: Chump Change
•		"The $2 Trillion Nightmare" (cost of Iraq War) by Bob Herbert (New York Times)
•		John McCain in His Own Words on: NAFTA, "Free Trade", Health Care for Veterans, Health Care Reform, the American Economy (video)
•		"State House Crock" -- Money and Politics (animated)
•		Are You a Union Member who is a Veteran, Serving Active Duty in the Military/Guard/Reserves -- or a Member of a Military Family?
•		American Labor Laws Fall Short of American Values
•		The Recession and the Freedom to Organize
•		Support the Right of Iraq Workers to Organize!
•		"Healthy Wisconsin" Becomes a Health Care Reform Model for the Nation
•		Economists Rethink Free Trade (Business Week!)
•		Rx for Recession: An Economic Strategy that Works
•		"The Squandering of America", by Robert Kuttner (New York Times)
•		Iraq's Civil Resistance
•		Labor's Global Push
•		Global Labor Leaders Stress Workers' Freedom to Join Unions to Congress
•		CounterThink: Countries and Corporations
•		Myths About Social Security
•		Bill Moyers on "Free Trade"
•		Canada Protects Right to Bargain
•		"Free Trade" Flim-Flam
•		"Rights at Work: A Guide for Teens"
•		Cost of the War in Iraq.
•		The Establishment Rethinks Globalization, by William Greider (The Nation)
•		What if Presidential Elections Were Like Union Elections?
•		Unions Aim for More Conservation Efforts: Union Sportsmen's Alliance (USA)
•		Looking for Resources to get Labor History into your Schools? Check This Out!
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