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Appleseed in the News |
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Lawmakers must strictly regulate payday lenders |
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South Carolina
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By SuperUser Account on
4/27/2006
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Many South Carolina workers, among the poorest in the nation, are being lured into multiple short-term, high-interest loans that amount to financial bondage. As they struggle from paycheck to paycheck, they often fall prey to payday lenders, who market their service as a quick and easy way to get cash for emergencies such as car repairs. The result in far too many cases is consumers getting locked into a vicious cycle of debt. State lawmakers shouldn't allow this fleecing of South Carolina to continue. If they are not going to ban payday lending, they should at least heavily regulate it.
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Neb. Taking Steps to Monitor Meatpacking |
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Nebraska
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By SuperUser Account on
4/22/2006
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With a bill of rights and a state watchdog, Nebraska has taken extra steps to monitor working conditions in the meatpacking industry. But Milo Mumgaard, executive director of the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, says his organization conducted a survey last summer and concluded the bill had little impact.
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Agencies worried about proposed budget |
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Nebraska
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By SuperUser Account on
4/20/2006
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How do you fund a war, a more secure nation and a constituency clamoring for tax relief? If you're President George W. Bush crafting the 2007 budget, you look for programs to cut spending. And one of the places you pick is domestic spending. The reality is, said Becky Gould, attorney with the Nebraska Appleseed Center, the proposal would cut funding while reducing revenue with tax cuts.
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Improve D.C., Win Some Cash |
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District of Columbia
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By SuperUser Account on
4/18/2006
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The nonprofit group D.C. Appleseed is betting $8,500 in prize money that people who commute to, and live in D.C., have solutions to some of DC's most pressing issues. D.C. Appleseed is hoping the contest will help to shape the next mayor's political agenda. The tree top prizewinners will be invited to present their ideas at a mayoral forum.
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The AIDS Epidemic in DC |
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District of Columbia
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By SuperUser Account on
4/17/2006
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In Washington, D.C., nearly 10,000, or about one in every 50 people have AIDS, and there is an unknown but even higher number with HIV. D.C. also has the highest rate of new AIDS cases in the country -- 12 times the national average -- and has more people living with AIDS than all but nine states. The D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, which monitors the city's progress in addressing the disease, issued a report last August that put most of the blame on government coordination and leadership
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Many Mexicans Have Jobs Before Crossing |
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Nebraska
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By SuperUser Account on
4/14/2006
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APPLESEED
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Group by Center
Many Mexicans Have Jobs Before Crossing
April 14, 2006
The Associated Press
Julie Watson and Olga R. Rodriguez
A growing number of U.S. employers and migrants are tapping into an underground employment network that matches one with the other, often before the migrants leave home. Darcy Tromanhauser, of the nonprofit law project Nebraska Appleseed, said companies in need of workers rely on the networks to "pass along the information more effectively than billboards."
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Strategy Sessions Fueled Immigrant Marches |
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Nebraska
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By SuperUser Account on
4/12/2006
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Through e-mail messages, phone calls, word of mouth, and coverage in ethnic and mainstream news media, the loose network has shared tactics and developed an ad hoc blueprint repeated from Fresno, Calif., to Omaha to Atlanta: engage Spanish-language radio DJ's, who reach millions; place leaflets in churches; and buttonhole members of Latin American soccer leagues.
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In Crete, fear could have kept people at work |
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Nebraska
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By SuperUser Account on
4/11/2006
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Twenty-five miles away in Lincoln, people from Crete and other area towns carried banners, waved tiny American flags and made a visible claim to belonging in this state and this country. By their presence, they also spoke out against the chance lawmakers will end their immigration gridlock by deporting millions of undocumented workers and building a fence along the Mexican border. In Crete, home to hundreds of immigrants who work at the nearby Farmland pork-processing plant, things were quieter.
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