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The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left searing scars on the memory of every American. Subsequent attacks deploying anthrax and ricin through the mail and news of terrorist bombings abroad have made people feel even more vulnerable.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly March 30 to add $6 billion in child care funds to the pending welfare reauthorization bill, an issue that CWA activists attending the Legislative-Political Conference fought for on Capitol Hill.

At the Democratic Unity dinner in Washington, D.C., in late March, Senator John Kerry spotted CWA President Morton Bahr and gave him a hug.

Four years ago, the economy was strong, unemployment was low and, for a few more months, labor unions and working families had a friend in the White House.

Three WashTech-CWA members and a West Virginia member who lost her AT&T job were among 51 unemployed workers who told their stories in March to crowds in 18 cities from St. Louis, Mo., to Washington, D.C. - stops on the AFL-CIO's "Show Us the Jobs" bus tour.