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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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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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18 new books on climate change, sustainability, women environmentalists
March 8, 2018What do Rachel Carson, sea otters, toxic toads and the Gold King Mine disaster have in common?
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California labor and allies fight Trump immigration lawsuit
March 8, 2018Gov. Brown said the lawsuit threatens innocent people, and “is about dividing America.”
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