Citizens Budget Campaign of Western PA. Acting for economic justice CBC supports budget priorities that challenge corporate control of our economy, provide for the common good and meet human needs. CBC opposes taxation that favor sthe rich and burdens workers with higher taxes.

PUSH Pennsylvanians United for Single-payer Healthcare HEALTH CARE FOR ALL Join PUSH to demand a return to health care as a public service. Challenge  big business bureaucracies that charge big bucks and leave 45 million uninsured

PUSH meetings Saturdays at 11 a.m. United Steelworkers HQ Stanwix & Blvd. of Allies, Downtown December 4, 2004 January 8 and February 19, 2005 Committees  Political Action    November 29, 2004 6 p.m., 240 Mt. Lebanon Boulevard Dr. Scott Tyson  TysMar@aol.com Outreach   December 13, 2004 6:30 p.m., 103 Cherry Hill Rd., Forest Hills Sharon Geibel  slgeibel@aol.com Education    Mike Stout619@comcast.net Contact for speakers, PUSH video Fund-raising  Cynthia Vanda cvanda+@pitt.edu Coordinator  Rick Bobak rnbphoto7@msn.com

Action Alerts Go to Budget Alert page for updates on legislation and contact information As of November 22, 2004: BUSH  DOMESTIC PRIORITIES Tax Plans Senate passes hike in federal debt limit to $8.18 trillion from $7.38 trillion   11-18-04, P-G Bush to request $70 billion or more for Iraq war What about new Bush tax plan? Pushing around the poor: Stop Bush from dismantling Section 8 housing for low-income families PA.: Will  new customers need to pay 2-month deposit for each utility? Congress passes $137 billion corporate tax giveaway

Articles & Information NEW! Wages & salaries down, corporate profits up as share of GDP NEW! Greenspan Issues Warning on Deficit 2005 Federal Budget 2005 Military Budget Analyses of Bush Tax Cut Congressional Budget Office & Bush Corporate Giveaway PA Loses Big on Federal Tax Benefits Key Economists Oppose Bush Policy Cuts in Veterans Benefits Working Poor Dollar Is Melting Down Dollar Is in Trouble Bush Attacks Social Security Women and the Job Picture The Environment & EPA Cutting HUD housing for the poor July 1, 2003 CBC Hearing on Impact of Federal Budget on Western PA Impact of the Federal Budget on W. PA. Housing Testimony Catholic Diocese Testimony - Social Issues Childcare Testimony Environment Transportation Chair of Hearing Rep. Mike Doyle State & Local Taxes -  PA. Paying for War PA. Poor Pay More Tax Disparities Opinion Buy the Myth That Inequality Is Good for Us Congress Is Boring I Have Six Children It Was the Best of Times doohnibor CBC TAX DAY SKIT

New Books on the Drug Industry The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine   Random House Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks and Costs of Prescription Drugs  by Jerry Avorn, Harvard Medical School,  Alfred A. Knopf Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of America  by John Abramson, physician and critic of the New England Journal of Medicine  HarperCollins On the Take: How America's Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health  by Jerome P. Kassirer, former editor-in-chief, New England Joournal of Medicine   Oxford University Important New Book "Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business& Bad Medicine" Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele, Pulitzer reporters, Doubleday See their TIME article Healthcare Can Be Cured

Information Physicians for a National Health Program Citizens for a National Health Plan Healthcare Information FACT SHEET National Health Care Bill H.R. 676 PUSH actions PUSH news         PUSH actions PA. Conference on Healthcare Crisis PA Conference Report Articles Prescription drug prices Drug Pushers Mental Health               Medical Savings Accounts   Healthcare & Job Loss    Tort Reform High Cost of Insurance            Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Bandaid Measures Bush Healthcare Scam Halliburton of Medicare         Maine study of Single-Payer More Are Uninsured National Inst. of Health Supports It National Healthcare Coalition

Save Our City Act 47 calls for severe cuts in Pittsburgh's basic community and social services, including parks and recreation, rat control, garbage, fire and police protection, school crossing guards, basic maintenance. Please contact your state legislators - especially those who represent suburban areas. The legislator has passed a stop gap measure that will not address some basic problems. Pittsburgh is the only city in the U.S. in which corporations pay no City taxes. Suburbs and City are not separate, but depend on one another for the life of the entire Western PA. region.