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Time for big, bold federal jobs program
March 30, 2010Jobs for America NOW is organizing meetings with lawmakers while they are home for the Easter recess to urge them to pass Rep. George Miller's $75 billion jobs bill.
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Unions, passengers unite to save mass transit and jobs
March 30, 2010Thousands of transit workers and passengers rallied at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on March 27 to demand federal funding for public transit systems nationwide.
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Obama makes pro-labor recess appointments
March 29, 2010President Obama is bypassing Republican obstructionists in the Senate this week and naming 15 people to administration positions, which the GOP has blocked for an average of 214 days.
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Comptroller: NYC paying slumlords millions to house homeless
March 29, 2010The Department of Homeless Services is wasting millions of dollars on services that lack oversight, some of which are overtly illegal, according to recent audit of the DHS.
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Militia arrests signal return of armed “patriot” groups
March 29, 2010FBI raids on suspected militia members over the weekend jolted a public already concerned about far-right violence that surfaced during the health care reform fight.
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