Tag: Compensation
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Camp Lejeune Veterans Denied at Least $14 Million in Compensation – The Flaws Within the VA System
Between 1953 and 1987, the environment of Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was severely contaminated with trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride, perchloroethylene, benzene, and PFAS. During this period, approximately one million people lived at the military base. Toxic exposure was unavoidable. While the highest trichloroethylene level at Camp Lejeune was 280 times over the safe limit,…
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9/11 First Responders Deserve More
If you haven’t yet seen Jon Stewart’s testimony in favor of renewing health benefits for 9/11 first responders, you should watch it here, now. In it, the former Daily Show host calls out the politicians who didn’t bother showing up to a Congressional hearing on renewing the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. The Fund provides financial…