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Workers with rights, not guests who are slaves
June 15, 2007Growing up in western Texas as the daughter of cotton sharecroppers, I spent my summers weeding cotton, five days a week, 10 hours a day, in 95-degree heat. As grueling as this workload was, others had...
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Can we reindustrialize?
June 15, 2007Last month Toyota surpassed General Motors as the world’s biggest automaker. It’s only the latest sign that U.S. manufacturing industry is in trouble. So is British manufacturing, according to a recent analysis by the Economic Committee...
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Bush campaigns to revive immigration bill
June 15, 2007In his June 9 national radio address, President Bush strongly endorsed the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348, that stalled in the Senate, June 7, when just 45 of a necessary 60 senators were ready to...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
June 15, 2007ERIE, Pa.: GE workers demand fair contract Three busloads of workers drove to northwestern Pennsylvania from Louisville, Ky., to stand shoulder to shoulder with thousands of General Electric workers from here and from Massachusetts, New York...
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How do you pay for your education?
June 15, 2007Students seek relief from mounting debt CHICAGO — Graduating with a college degree is more than ever a necessity today. Students and their families are doing whatever it takes to pay for higher education, including taking...
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