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Oakland’s Friday farmer’s market and its vegetable vocabulary of love
April 27, 2017The market attracts immigrants from many countries. You can hear a dozen languages in the people filling its four blocks.
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Here are some ways Jeff Sessions’ DOJ is rewriting U.S. policy
April 26, 2017Welcome to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under Sessions.
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Report: Top 100 federal contractors offshored tens of thousands of jobs
April 26, 2017New report finds the height of the offshoring occurred in 2008, during the depths of the Great Recession.
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International media broadcast one-sided portrayal of Venezuela violence
April 26, 2017To paraphrase a remark recently made by Venezuelan author José Roberto Duque, the “truth has suddenly become useless.”
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Minimum wage hike to $15 would give 41 million a raise
April 26, 2017In the eight years since the federal minimum wage was last raised, the buying power of a minimum-wage paycheck has fallen 10 percent due to inflation.
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