Politics
Senate on verge of capitulating to bankster lobby
March 8, 2018“Too many senators seem willing to ignore the lessons of the financial crisis, and what happens when we let big banks write the rules of the economy."
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Frances Perkins: The woman who helped end the Great Depression
March 8, 2018On International Women's Day, we remember Frances Perkins - advocate for working people and the architect of much of FDR's New Deal.
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Structural racism remains 50 years after Kerner Commission report
March 7, 2018A new report compares the state of black workers and their families in 1968 with the economic circumstances African Americans face today.
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A detention center vigil that defies La Migra
March 6, 2018"We can't just watch the immigration policy of this country play itself out and do nothing, while ICE and the Border Patrol hunt people down and tear their families apart."
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Lesbian resident at senior facility fights to be who she is
March 5, 2018“The elderly deserve to be treated with respect and to feel safe no matter who they are or who they loved."
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