http://onlinecpi.org/ http://onlinecpi.org/article.php?id=1073 Urge School Board to reverse layoffs http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/05/15/news/01reserve051408.txt Thursday, May 15, 2008 | The San Diego Unified School District's emergency reserve and other special funds are being eyed by the teachers union and an outside policy group as they pore over the budget for ways to avert the pending layoffs of more than 600 educators. 2008-05-14 http://onlinecpi.org/article.php?id=1066 2008-05-14 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/business/04insure.html For millions of people with employer health insurance, premiums and co-payments have increased quickly while coverage has become less extensive. 2008-05-04 http://onlinecpi.org/article.php?id=1063 Support service and technological workers at this North County medical center as they organize for a union and begin negotiations for a fair and just contract. In partnership with SEIU-UHW. 2008-05-04 http://onlinecpi.org//downloads/A Failure Waiting to Happen.pdf Privatizing San Diego the Walter Reed way: a fiasco. 2008-05-04 http://www.onlinecpi.org/article.php?list=type&type=233 The risks in outsourcing. Video: "I'm your trash man." 2008-05-04 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/business/18hours.html The shrinking of hours and pay for millions of workers appears to be a bigger contributor to the economic decline than the loss of jobs. 2008-04-18 http://onlinecpi.org//downloads/DoItRightFlyer_FINAL.pdf Flyer and factsheet on protections needed against the risks of outsourcing (2.56 MB) 2008-04-18 http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/FXTopStory.asp%3Fdate%3D04/10/2008%26item%3D11&cid=1149096232&ei=Z2X-R8zyB4yeqwOS5OiXAg&usg=AFrqEzeoIOtmwkYn0Mdpr4MR_IpLELwY_A New Study Released On Middle Class []RTT News, NY - 5 hours agoSlightly more than half of middle class respondents say they've had to tighten their belts in the past year.? Nevertheless, the survey noted that the ...America's Not-So-Classless Society About - News & Issuesall 6 news articles 2008-04-10 http://www.kpbs.org/news/local?id=11354 San Diego voters have twice rejected increasing the hotel room tax, even though some of the money would have paid for badly needed firefighters and equipment. But in December, just five weeks after wildfires burned down 365 homes in San Diego the city council raised the hotel tax on its own and handed over the extra tax dollars to a group of hoteliers to promote tourism. KPBS Reporter Amita Sharma has more. 2008-04-09 http://www.kpbs.org/news/local?id=11268 A survey of San Diego's economic prosperity reveals the region's standard of living is falling behind the rest of California and the nation. The San Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG, has a strategy to reverse the trend. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more. 2008-03-27 http://onlinecpi.org/article.php?id=1034 2008-03-27 http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080324/news_1n24inflate.html WASHINGTON – Inflation is walloping Americans with low and moderate incomes as the prices of staples have soared far faster than those of luxuries. 2008-03-24 http://onlinecpi.org/article.php?id=579 The risks in privatizing city services. Video: "I'm your trash man." 2008-03-24