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• United Farm Workers | Help make safe food and justice for all a reality

  action.ufw.org/page/speakout/ucdavis

  z’ mission was to make “Safe Food and Justice for all” a reality. Some organizations have taken up the work of promoting food safety while others have taken up the work of promoting social justice. The two, however, are interrelated and have thus both long been priorities of Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America. The Center for Produce Safety, based out of Agricultural research hub, UC Davis, is a public-private partnership focused on researching science-based solutions to produce safety threats.

  
  

• Paid Sick Days: Attitudes and Experiences

  www.nationalpartnership.org/site/DocServer/NORC_Report_FINAL_6-17-10.pdf?docID=6741

  Report on paid sick days

  
  

• Take action

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  On behalf of more than 40 million working people without paid sick days, I urge you to co-sponsor the Healthy Families Act. This important legislation would guarantee up to seven paid sick days per year for workers to recover from their own illness or care for a sick family member

  
  

• Wall Street reform singes, not burns - Ben White - POLITICO.com

  www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38777.html

  If you listen to Wall Street, the next several days will decide whether Washington destroys its business model and unleashes fresh chaos on a financial system already struggling against a recent global meltdown and punishing recession.

  
  

• Bill McCollum counting on 'welfare of politicians' - Orlando Sentinel

  articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-06-20/news/os-capview-column-deslatte-06-20-10...

  Florida Republicans for years have lambasted the state's public campaign-finance system, enacted to level the playing field for state candidates, labeling it "welfare for politicians."

  
  

• Crist's edge over Rubio appears to be growing - St. Petersburg Times

  www.tampabay.com/news/crists-edge-over-rubio-appears-to-be-growing/1103719

  A new Florida Chamber of Commerce poll suggests Charlie Crist may be widening his lead over Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek in the U.S. Senate race.

  
  

• Robert Reich: My Father and Alan Greenspan

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  www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/my-father-and-alan-greens_b_618921.html?ir=D...

  When I was a small boy at the start of the 1950s, my father gave me my first economics lesson. "Bobby," he said with obvious concern, "you and your children and your children's children will be repaying the national debt created by Franklin D. Roosevelt."

  
  

• Bill McCollum grabs matching funds while preaching austerity - St. Petersburg Times

  www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article1103687.ece

  Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum says Florida faces such severe budget shortfalls that everybody needs to cut

  
  
• 20 JUN 10

  Think Progress » After Blaming Dems For ‘Spending Money We Don’t Have,’ Rubio Faces Foreclosure On House He Can’t Afford

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  thinkprogress.org/2010/06/18/rubio-foreclosure-spending/

  Across the country, homeowners have been facing foreclosure after seeing their payments on adjustable mortgages increase while housing prices fell. According to the Palm Beach Post, this problem has even afflicted the Republican senate candidate in Florida, Marco Rubio.

  
  

• Obama says GOP making life harder for the jobless

  www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2010%2F06%2F18%2Fnational%2Fw001...

  President Barack Obama on Saturday pinned blame on Republicans for making life harder for the unemployed and for those who could lose their jobs without new federal intervention. He did so even as he sought to distance himself from the "dreary and familiar politics" of Washington.