Groups lobby on economic aid plan
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Senior citizens are knocking on senators' doors. Lobbyists for the homebuilding and energy industries are burning up their telephone lines.
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As negotiations begin on an economic stimulus package, the big fight will be over whether to put extra money in the hands of low-income families who paid little or no income tax last year.
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United for urgent action, the White House and Congress raced toward emergency steps Thursday to rescue the national economy from a possible recession
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Three dozen farm and banking groups  called on Tuesday for Congress to pass without delay $6.5  billion in disaster relief for rural America amid signs that  aid might become an election-year issue.
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A plan to send $500-$1,000 rebates to all but the richest taxpayers advanced in the Senate Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats teamed to add aid for disabled veterans, the elderly and the unemployed to a House-passed economic recovery bill.
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Heads of state from some two dozen African states were to gather to craft a jobs creation plan that would lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and advance development on the world's poorest continent.
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A U.S.-organized group of nations concerned about the growing power of Islamic militants in Somalia lent its support Thursday to the country&#039;s weak interim government and demanded unfettered access so aid groups can help its impoverished people.
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Various groups are lobbying efforts to shift the brunt of a $26 million annual baseball stadium tax onto other companies.
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Political leaders and aid agencies are pleading with governments and individuals around the world not to skimp on donations to Africa as they open their wallets to tsunami victims in south and southeast Asia.
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African leaders meet this weekend to debate a grand plan for a continental government, but they face pleas for urgent action now to halt conflicts in Darfur and Somalia and tackle enduring poverty.
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A group funded in part by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that plans to run ads criticizing Democratic ties to trial lawyers is the target of a complaint filed with election officials Wednesday.
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With 40 years of textile quotas about to be abolished in a move to help developing nations, a group of the world&#39;s poorest countries are asking for a different approach: special trade deals to protect them from a free-for-all.
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Southeast Asian economic ministers began talks to discuss ways to speed up economic integration and free trade in an effort to move closer to establishing a regional economic community.
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A push is on to help small firms join NAFTA and close Mexico's rich-poor gap.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are concerned that a new  European Union proposal for improving development aid may not  result in sufficient extra money for health and education in poor  countries.
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Britain will be seeking approval from the United States for its grand plan to help alleviate poverty in Africa when finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations convene here Friday and ...
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.