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With rise of Egypt, Glenn Beck’s popularity falls

February 4, 2011 By Joe Sims

In response to the Egyptian uprising, Glenn Beck is getting crazier and more extreme than ever with predictions of a worldwide conflagration and implosion.

Neighborhood Grocery Initiative takes on non-union megastores

February 4, 2011 By Tatyana Torregian And Marilyn Bechtel

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 in northern California says the year 2011 poses unprecedented challenges for its members working in the grocery industry.

Indian workers on Gulf Coast fight modern day slavery

February 3, 2011 By John Wojcik

Hundreds of workers from India who were forced into modern day slavery at Gulf Coast shipyards for more than a year after Hurricane Katrina are demanding that federal courts certify their lawsuit as a class action...

Republicans set to kill mortgage assistance programs

February 3, 2011 By Joe Sims

Republican members of Congress have set their sight on gutting assistance to troubled homeowners at risk of foreclosure.

Americans support the EPA, oppose its dismantling

February 3, 2011 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Two-thirds of all Americans support the Environmental Protection Agency, placing the Republican push for its dismantling at odds with the will of the people.