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Nearly 400 new members came to CWA in recent weeks, including police, nurses, teachers, attorneys and broadcast technicians.

Media reports indicate that off-the-record many Republicans are angry about the Social Security scheme. A few have been bold enough to speak out publicly.

In the Social Security debate, there are three things economists across the political spectrum agree on:

One: Private accounts would do nothing at all to resolve the program's long-term funding problems.

CWA is playing a key role as the AFL-CIO undertakes a wide open self-examination and debate over strategies to revitalize the labor movement and reverse the steady decline of union membership as a proportion of the workforce.

From food safety to veterans' medical needs to meals for impoverished children, activists and economists alike say the $2.6 trillion federal budget proposed for 2006 strikes out at the country's most vulnerable citizens as well as working families who are already having trouble making ends meet.