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AFL-CIO backs legislation to curb execs’ revolving door to D.C.

August 27, 2015 By Sam Pizzigati

"Hard-working families can't afford to have the financial industry and government creating a cozy relationship that allows Wall Street to write its own rules."

A decade after Katrina: what we’ve learned and refuse to learn

August 27, 2015 By Special to People’s World

A decade later, the nation has made little progress in addressing the systemic problems Hurricane Katrina laid bare.

Dethroning fossil fuels: rise of the New Abolitionists

August 27, 2015 By Rev. Jim Conn

Advocates for keeping fossil fuels in the ground are demanding of the world what this nation required of itself following the Civil War.

ATU: “A Common-Sense Bus Safety Proposal”

August 26, 2015 By PAI

Putting intercity bus drivers under federal overtime pay laws would raise their pay, lower their fatigue, and cut fatal bus crashes and deaths.

Today in history: It’s Women’s Equality Day!

August 26, 2015 By Special to People’s World

On this day 95 years ago, in 1920, after a 72-year struggle, women in the United States won the right to vote.