
Connecticut leaders to receive People’s World awards
Three leaders have been named as recipients of the Amistad Award to be presented here by the People's World on Sunday, Dec. 5.

House GOP freshman: I want my government health care, now!
"This is the only employer I've ever worked for where you don't get coverage the first day you are employed," the right-wing GOP representative-elect said.

Chips ahoy: Big pharma to put computers in pills
According to some recent news stories we all may be swallowing computer chips in the near future.
Trumka: Voters don't want to go back
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said as he wrapped up campaigning in Philadelphia on Election Day that voters "don't want to go back to the times when Wall Street controlled everything."

Crunch time for the midterm elections
It's crunch time! The polls are open and today's the day to cast your vote for candidates who will fight for working families, not candidates funded by the corporations.

Alarming U. S. public health statistics raise big questions
In 1960 combined male and female life expectancy in the U.S. ranked fifth in the world, in 2000 it had fallen to 24th place, and 10 years later, in 2010, to 49th.

EPA targets dioxin, GOP targets EPA
The Obama administration is proposing tougher standards for highly toxic dioxin, and, naturally, industry groups and Republicans are objecting.

Ariz. tea party candidate: No government regulation of salmonella
In Arizona, Republican candidate Jesse Kelley, for the U.S. House in the 8th District, has come out strongly in favor of salmonella outbreaks. He, like many Republicans denying the obvious need for better enforcement of health and food safety regulations, almost incredibly, espoused what amounts to "E-Coli conservatism" at a campaign rally hosted by the Pima County Tea Party Patriots.

Too fat to fight
Science Daily reported recently on new analysis by Cornell University has uncovered a major threat to U.S. national security.

Poll: candidates backing health care likely victors in November
Fifty-four percent of voters say they would be more likely to back a candidate who supported health care reform. That number includes 51 percent of independents and 70 percent of Democratic voters.

