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$5.15 an hour wont cut it: Campaigns to raise the minimum wage sweep the country
June 9, 2006Because Congress has refused to raise the $5.15 an hour minimum wage since 1997, coalitions of labor, religious and community groups are organizing voters to do so, one state at a time. So far 21 states...
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Cubans jailed in U.S. as spies are hailed at home as heroes
June 4, 2006HAVANA—European tourists here send home postcards with stamps bearing the images of five faces, known simply as los muchachos (the young men) or los cinco (the five). The faces, usually surrounded by billowing Cuban flags, stare...
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The Boss newest goes right with old
June 2, 2006Sometimes things work best when they’re understated. Bruce Springsteen’s latest album isn’t an antiwar album, it’s not about post-Katrina New Orleans, it’s not a frontal attack on President Bush. But at the same time, it’s all...
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Union bricklayer & teacher turn to farming: Family orchards story
June 2, 2006Nancy Mendenhall’s story begins in 1907 with the decision of her grandparents (and mine) to flee Tacoma’s smog to start a fruit farm irrigated with water pumped from the Columbia River in eastern Washington. Frank M....
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Bush faces coalition of the dwindling
June 2, 2006It’s a coalition of the dwindling. The U.S.-led multinational occupying force in Iraq is losing troops from two of its most important allies -Italy and South Korea -and up to a half dozen other members could...
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