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Detroit bankruptcy: Revenue, not spending, the problem
December 3, 2013The ruling concerns the 23,500 retired city workers collecting pension benefits.
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Protesting poverty wages lands them in jail
December 3, 2013At the intersection of Snelling and University Avenues in St. Paul, Minnesota, 26 were arrested on Black Friday afternoon, Nov. 29, for protesting poverty wages.
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Floridians put Walmart on trial
December 3, 2013The people's verdict following the 15-minute mock trial: Guilty on all counts, including worker abuse, misuse of taxpayer funds and destroying the American economy.
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Oil refinery waste piling up in Chicago
December 3, 2013Residents on the southeast side of this city are complaining about smoke, but it's actually dust from an oil refinery, and it's drifting into many nearby neighborhoods.
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Today in labor history: KKK found guilty of conspiracy in death of Viola Liuzzo
December 3, 2013Liuzzo, who came from a working-class Detroit family and had lived in the South as a child, traveled to Alabama after the Selma to Montgomery marches and the "Bloody Sunday" attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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