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Government offers $1 billion more for housing crisis, still hard to keep pace

September 15, 2010 By Joe Sims

As the nation's poverty rate rises to 15 percent, the highest level since the 1960s, the Obama administration announced this week new measures to help struggling homeowners prevent foreclosure.

Abercrombie & Fitch sells the corporate, un-American look

September 15, 2010 By Blake Skylar

Abercrombie & Fitch is a well-known American retailer that focuses on clothing for target consumers, ages of 18 through 22. The company also operates offshoot brands, including Hollister and Gilly Hicks. The store, however, has kept...

Laundry workers expose Cleveland’s own “sweat” shop

September 15, 2010 By Debbie Kline

Think about working in temperatures, upwards of 100 degrees on hot days. Finding used hypodermic needles, human body parts, fluids and excrement, umbilical cords and other biohazard material. No safety harnesses for workers climbing over 10...

Saint Vincent PM: U.S. business seek to topple government

September 15, 2010 By Emile Schepers

The prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph E. Gonsalves, has accused U.S. and other foreign interests of meddling in his country's internal affair.

U.S. unions, Canadian energy sign pact on transnational pipeline

September 14, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg

Four U.S. construction unions signed a Project Labor Agreement on Sept. 14 with a large Canadian energy company, to build a big trans-national oil pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas'...