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stephanie
10-13-2008, 08:51 PM
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By IGNAZIO MESSINA
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Nearly 65 years ago, a forward-looking President Franklin Delano Roosevelt— searching for recovery of the economy and looking toward the end of a global war on two fronts — presented to the country his idea of a second Bill of Rights dictating the right of all Americans to have jobs, adequate medical care, food, shelter, and education.

The nation's political leaders now are seeking to reverse unemployment, fix an economy battered by turmoil on Wall Street, and win — or at least honorably end — a global war on terror being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Leaders in Ohio and Michigan are fighting to improve two of the worst state economies in the country, with jobless rates the highest in years and plant closings routine news.

Today, when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama returns to Toledo, The Blade, on its front page, asks Mr. Obama a simple question: Do all Americans who want to work have the right to a job where they live?

John Robinson Block, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, said the answer to that question is important to all Toledoans and to all Americans.

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20081012&Kategori=NEWS09&Lopenr=809290251&Ref=AR