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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
More than one in four Iowans under the age of 65 went without health insurance for all or part of the last two years, according to a study issued by the national health-care reform group Families USA.
Of those who went uninsured, nearly 70 percent went without health care for six months or longer, and 85 percent are members of a working family.
The group notes that these figures are much higher than the Census Bureau’s latest estimates because those figures only count individuals who did not have health insurance at any point during the year, leaving out those who went uninsured for a portion of a year.
Nationally, a third of people younger than 65 went without health insurance at some point in 2007 or 2008, the group found.
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