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Progress toward immigration bill? Not without “street heat”

April 4, 2013 By Emile Schepers

Of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States today, between 7.5 and 8 million are estimated to be in the labor force.

Food News: A birthday, a time to march, a time to sow

April 4, 2013 By Barbara Russum

Did you know that every minute, we lose one acre of farmland to development? Or that since 1982, we've lost over 23 million acres of farmland?

Workers say city services are vital to public safety

April 4, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

City workers gathered in front of City Hall April 2 with a message for City Council members starting to discuss a new two-year budget.

Mid-air collision fear grows as control towers shut down

April 4, 2013 By John Wojcik

It's more than just jobs on the chopping block as air traffic control towers at 149 airports begin shutting down this month.

Today in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember

April 4, 2013 By Special to People’s World

An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.