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Could NL break ALs winning streak at All-Star game?
July 15, 2009Baseball fans nationwide are gearing up to watch their hometown bat-sluggers and small-ball players take the field tonight during the 80th Major League Baseball All-Star game. This year the St. Louis Cardinals will host the annual...
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Labor leaders push people’s agenda at White House meeting
July 15, 2009The nation’s top union leaders were at the White House yesterday pushing for a second stimulus package, a strong public option in the health care reform bill, and the Employee Free Choice Act. A top aide...
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The status of immigration reform today
July 15, 2009Immigration reform of some sort is underway, but it is running a zigzag course of small positive moves and other very negative ones. Labor and immigrants’ rights organizations are asking that grassroots activism and pressure be...
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Mass transit can ease Michigan woes, group says
July 15, 2009DEARBORN, Mich. — Detroit wasn’t always singularly known as the Motor City. Once it was also known as a city that had an extensive streetcar system where people had a choice of how they “motored” around....
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Service workers hungry themselves, fight to feed kids
July 15, 2009Food service workers are in Washington to demand improvement of the 63-year-old School Lunch Program that feeds 30 million children every day. “A lot of these kids are not getting breakfast in the morning and are...
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