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"Any effective job creation bill will have to address the hemorrhaging happening in communities of color and the intersections of unemployment and poverty. A special task force should be established to examine the higher than average unemployment rates in Black and Latino communities and to develop long-term strategies to support long-term recovery."

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Wallis says, "I have some hope that our political leaders on both sides will come back to the table, regardless of where the Senate bill or conference committee report lands on this issue. Indeed, I am asking them to do that. Health care is too important to too many, and we have all been working for too long for any of us to walk away from this issue.

So whatever the outcome, by an agreed compromise or by open and fair floor or committee votes, I hope and pray that neither side in the country -- pro-life or pro-choice -- walks away from critically needed health-care reform. Either make an agreement or live with the outcome of the vote. But don't walk away! Health-care reform is fundamentally an issue of social and economic justice -- one of the most critical moral issues of our time, and itself an issue of "life." It's time to do what we have sung in social movements for decades now: "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize." And hold on. Hold on."

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They want to increase private-sector job growth through tax credits and loans to small and medium businesses.

In a joint statement, the group say, "Americans are confronting the worst jobs situation in more than half a century. This is not a situation we must continue to tough out. A robust plan to create jobs in transparent, effective, and equitable ways can put America back to work."

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What does this mean?
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AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.

How can this be prevented or resolved?
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"Gender fatigue actually refers to the phenomenon that people lack the energy to construct the workplace again and again as gender neutral despite the fact that discrimination continues to exist."

It will make it more challenging to tackle the discrimination that still happens in the workplace but in more subtle ways.

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So now that we women are becoming the primary breadwinners, and our wages are supposedly rising faster than men's (Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2009), will the tables turn?

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