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Tsunami of evictions underway as moratoriums end
August 4, 2020The nation faces the potential of being plunged into the greatest homelessness crisis in history with the federal government this far poised to do nothing about it.
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Colorado takes a giant step toward police reform
August 3, 2020The measure is part of a broad police accountability and reform legislation restricting the use of force by officers and banning chokeholds, signed into law by Governor Jared Polis (D) on June 19.
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Oregon hospital workers lose their union over one smudged ballot
August 3, 2020PORTLAND, Ore.--Back in February 2019, we reported on a razor-thin union election in which over 800 hospital support workers at Providence Portland Medical Center won a union by just one vote. Now we have to update...
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L.A. approves workers’ councils to enforce coronavirus safety measures
August 3, 2020The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor called the councils “the first step in a bold new solution to stop the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate any new outbreaks.” COVID-19 is the official name for the...
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In an age of masks, the mask is off
August 3, 2020The mask of humanity, justice, rationality, and peace is being torn off the collective face of the American government and politics and replaced with the sneer of the reality television host and the dead eyes of...
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