Features By Hilary Wicai
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Pfizer, heal thyself
The world's largest drug maker could face anemic revenues in '07 and the prescription to cure that unhealthy financial outlook is expected to include some 10,000 job cuts. Hillary Wicai reports.
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Renewable energy bill ends 100-hours agenda
House Democrats wrap up their 100-hours agenda today with a vote on a bill that would end subsidies for Big Oil and invest that money in a renewable energy fund. Hillary Wicai reports.
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Coming together for the uninsured
America's 47 million uninsured are creating a health care crisis, and out of necessity has come a coalition of strange bedfellows working together for a solution. Hillary Wicai reports.
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Interest turns to student-loan bill
Democrats are set to take up their next big issue tomorrow: interest rates on student loans. The bill would cut rates on some loans in half. Who's going to pay for that? Hillary Wicai reports.
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Student loan rates going down?
The House is expected to pass a bill tomorrow that would cut interest rates on student loans by half — but banks are hoping to stop it in the Senate. Hillary Wicai reports.
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Congress turns to the kitchen table
The Senate is focusing new attention on how workplace policies affect families at home. Hillary Wicai has the story.
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An upside to urban sprawl
Rapid urbanization is taking a heavy toll on the environment and human living conditions around the world, but it could also make the problems easier to solve. Hillary Wicai explains.
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Uncle Sam wants you — and 91,999 others
Defense Secretary Robert Gates today called for 92,000 troops to be added to the military over the next five years. Hillary Wicai looks at what it might take to get recruits to sign on the bottom line.
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Work and family high on Dems' agenda
Congressional Democrats have a lot on their list that might be of interest to working families. Hillary Wicai talks to Kai Ryssdal from Washington.
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Minimum wage hike may have strings attached
Congress is expected to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour over the next two years — but proponents may have to cut small businesses a break to make it happen. Hillary Wicai reports.
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