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<p> Too many women and families cannot afford the health care they need and deserve. Prices are rising even as the economy continues to struggle, and women continue to earn less than men. To make matters worse, new House leadership and Rep. Mike Pence are aggressively pushing a dangerous agenda to take health care away from women.</p>
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<p> No one has as much to gain — or to lose — in the political tug of war over health care reform as the nation’s 48 million Latinos.</p>
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<p>Una epidemia de tosferina en California que ha cobrado las vidas de 10 niños, ha resultado en un cambio de legislación que ahora exige a todos los estudiantes de séptimo a doceavo grado que demuestren haber sido vacunados contra la mortal enfermedad.</p>
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<p> Sheer desperation forced Jose Hidalgo to join a class-action lawsuit filed last week in Alameda County Superior Court, challenging Cali-fornia’s approval of the cancer-causing strawberry fumigant, methyl iodide.</p>
<p> “I like my job, but I am afraid of what it is doing to my health,” the 35-year-old Mexican immigrant said in Spanish in a telephone interview translated by his Salinas-based attorney, Michael Marsh.</p>
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<p> The whooping cough outbreak has already claimed the life of 10 children and has urged legislators to pass a law requiring all students entering 7th to 12th grade have a booster shot against the potentially killer disease.</p>
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<p> Sprouting up in the Rio Grande Valley, a new organization seeks to reshape the production, distribution and consumption of food. Called La Semilla Food Center, the New Mexico-based project intends not only to grow and sell organic food, but also expose youth to new careers, inspire value-added industries, get locally-grown produce into large institutions, spin-off small businesses, and encourage nutritional awareness.</p>