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Jon Stewart: What 9/11 heroes need from Congress. Make the Victim Compensation Fund permanent, and fund it
Today I am in our nation’s capital. I don’t particularly enjoy coming down here. It is a town that has four 8th Sts., and none of them intersect.
Jon Stewart: What 9/11 heroes need from Congress. Make the Victim Compensation Fund permanent, and fund it
Today I am in our nation’s capital. I don’t particularly enjoy coming down here. It is a town that has four 8th Sts., and none of them intersect.
The continued pain and push for benefits for 9/11 survivors heads back to Congress
FBI agent Robert Roth’s death sentence was written the day of the worst terrorist attack on American soil — and carried out almost seven years later.
Renewing the fight for 9/11 health funds
Nearly half of the 15,000 FDNY firefighters, officers and medics who were working on 9/11 — and survived — have gotten sick from their exposure to the toxins that swirled around the World Trade center site, union officials said Friday.
‘Your Turn to Step Up and Not Forget’ 9/11
This Monday comedian Jon Stewart and the advocates for hundreds of thousands of World Trade Center first responders and survivors will be in the nation’s capital to kick-off a national lobbying effort…
9/11 victims affected by new compensation plan take to DC
Victims of 9/11 and their advocates will head to Washington on Monday to demand reversal of a shocking new announcement that future victims’ compensation payments will be slashed as much as 70 percent.
9/11 first responders’ benefits to be slashed as fund runs out of money
Retired NYPD Sgt. Andrew Nelson knows that come 9/11, politicians will “wrap themselves up in the flag and say never forget.”
What’s mere money when 9/11 heroes gave their lives and their health? (commentary)
This is what we mean when we say “never forget.”
‘We’re in hospitals every day’: Nearly half of FDNY first responders have a WTC sickness
Nearly half of the 15,000 FDNY firefighters, officers and medics who were working on 9/11 — and survived — have gotten sick from their exposure to the toxins that swirled around the World Trade center site, union officials said Friday.
New Yorkers Set To March On Washington To Fight For 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
The fight for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund is heating up, with hundreds of New Yorkers ready to march on Capitol Hill on Monday.