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Trump’s steel tariffs: For the workers or the steel bosses?
March 9, 2018Several union leaders worry these are tariffs from a “president who wants to protect the industry, not the worker.”
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Virginia legislature wages battle for Medicaid expansion
March 9, 2018In some Republican-held districts, poor working class people, including whites who voted for Trump in 2016, are in severe trouble over the issue of health care costs. So supporters of Medicaid expansion have seen a chance...
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Florida residents say no to arming teachers
March 9, 2018One local parent said: "Let our teachers teach and please do not ask them to be soldiers in the classroom. Leave that to trained law enforcement.”
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“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice
March 9, 2018Black journalists in the commercial press packaged their mission of ending racial discrimination within a profit-oriented, objective presentation of current events, but "race news" wasn’t immune to politics.
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Low-wage workers, progressive Dems push minimum wage hike
March 9, 2018Half of the 26 million full-time minimum-wage workers and two-thirds of all minimum-wage workers including part-timers, are female, 11 million are parents and 4.5 million of them are single parents.
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