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Issue no. 747 — March 21 - April 4, 2005
Editorial
Editorial: Profits hit a record high, wages hit a record low
Pages 2-3
Tightening bankruptcy laws – but only for working people
BGE: Competition good – for them
Anthrax is ALREADY in the wrong hands
Minimum wage locks workers into outright poverty
They would make us all as helpless as Terri Schiavo
Maryland state legislature: They give a little and take it right back
A different type of "fan" for Arnold
Six months too late on the minimum wage
Pages 4-5
Social report card: U.S. gets a failing grade
Good times for 691 billionaires!
China: Five teenage girls killed in a textile factory
France: Workers strikes and demonstrations on March 10 and the aftermath
Lebanon: A new political crisis
Pages 6-7
EPA rule: Mercury contamination continues
Auto: Moving against retirees' health care
Detroit Public Schools: Money paid to cronies
Prozac: Behind lies about the "happiness pill" – profits
Page 8
More U.S. troops want out of this war
Movie Review: Gunner Palace – the devastation of the Iraq war seen through the troops' eyes