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The Social Security Administration office that reviews disability claims for Central Maryland has the third-longest processing delay in the nation, prompting a member of the state's congressional delegation on Monday to call for action to address its expanding backlog. - The union in battle with Johns Hopkins Hospital over wages has proposed to a state panel that hospitals disclose if their workers receive food stamps and other public assistance when reporting what benefit the institutions provide to the community.
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s small business rhetoric rings hollow.
- Nickel fee on shopping bags may be the best proposal of its kind so far but Baltimore City Council should still not adopt it
- Many held signs reading "End Poverty Pay at Johns Hopkins Hospital." Some repeated union worker rally chants. Others brought their children and family for support. All gathered at the Inner Harbor to demand better wages and benefits from the world-renowned hospital.
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- Johns Hopkins may provide lavish benefits, but some of its workers make too little to take advantage of them.
- Who bears the burden of America's social ills?
- House Republican plan to slash and burn popular domestic programs is likely to hurt the party's chances of winning a Senate majority
- Marylanders are growing increasingly frustrated with one-party rule and Democrats who ignore the interests of their constituents
- Johns Hopkins Hospital service workers may strike Wednesday if they don't come to a contract agreement in last-minute negotiations scheduled for later today.
- Hospital service and maintenance workers deserve a raise
- John Hopkins Hospital and the union representing housekeepers, food servers and other workers were unable to agree on a contract Thursday night, leaving open the possibility for a strike beginning April 9.
- For American dairy farmers, the will not get everything they want through the 2014 Farm Bill, but they should get everything they need, according to a Harford County dairy producer.
- While it is encouraging that Maryland legislators are working to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, the recent decision by the House of Delegates (if left to stand) to freeze the tipped minimum wage would represent a significant step backward for thousands of workers, particularly women.
- About 2,000 service and maintenance workers seeking raises have yet to come to an agreement with Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Thousands of service workers at Johns Hopkins Hospital have threatened to strike if the hospital does not agree to a wage hike of as much as 40 percent for some employees.
- A 58-year-old Yemeni man living in Baltimore was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for wire fraud in a $1.5 million illegal food stamp scheme, federal prosecutors announced.
- More than two months after Congress allowed federal unemployment benefits to lapse, tens of thousands of out-of-work Marylanders are hoping a bipartisan deal to restart the program will win approval when lawmakers return to Washington this week.
- Although Harford County Public Schools has not yet met the state's goals for student participation in the Free and Reduced Meals program – to the point they attracted a recent plea from Gov. Martin O'Malley to "feed these kids" – school officials stressed Monday they are working to get as many eligible kids fed as possible.
- Expect more social disorder if a country that took a century and a quarter to learn to handle its liquor legalizes marijuana. Being stoned is a condition that loosens civic bonds, so tolerating, if not encouraging use, should contribute to, not lessen, what historian Norman H. Clark described as an "attenuated sense of community."
- Two Korean citizens have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a food stamp fraud scheme and may face deportation, the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore announced this week.
- Deportations of non-violent immigrants are costly and immoral.
