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  • Voter revolt could topple GOP: Labor spearheads fight for southern Senate seats

    Voter revolt could topple GOP: Labor spearheads fight for southern Senate seats

    October 27, 2006

    Harold Ford, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Tennessee, is a “favorite son” of AFSCME Local 1733, a lawmaker with a 100 percent voting record in support of working families in the Memphis district he has...

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  • N.J. Supreme Court marriage ruling a step forward

    N.J. Supreme Court marriage ruling a step forward

    October 26, 2006

    Statement by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force recognizes as a step forward today’s unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court decision holding that denying rights and benefits to same-sex...

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  • No fruits for their labor

    No fruits for their labor

    October 21, 2006

    Julia Preston, a New York Times reporter writing from Washington, D.C., describes pears rotting on trees in Lake County, Calif., owing to a lack of farm workers to pick them. Growers tell her 70,000 of the...

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  • Katrina may have been a harbinger

    Katrina may have been a harbinger

    October 21, 2006

    A year after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, I thought I’d take a look back (like everyone else) and see how we as a country and as an industry have fared since. In...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    October 21, 2006

    Union addresses dropout rate The national statistics tell a terrible story: Three out of every 10 students in America who attend a public school as a ninth grader this year will drop out before completing their...

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