Politics
Maine campaign against war and corporate rule nears climax
March 12, 2018Maine legislators have a hot potato in their hands, but they don’t seem to be feeling any pain.
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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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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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