U.S.
Minimum wage hike drive moves into high gear
April 11, 2014The labor-backed campaign to raise the minimum wage resumed as the "Raise The Wage" bus headed for more states, while Maryland became the second state to enact a multi-year hike of the wage to $10.10 an...
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Many “Obamacare” critics accepted its subsidies
April 9, 2014Several big corporations have reaped millions of dollars from "Obamacare" even as they support GOP candidates who vow to repeal the law.
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Key lawmaker warns highway-mass transit money is running out
April 9, 2014Money to repair the nation's crumbling roads and rehab its creaky mass transit lines will run out by July, a key lawmaker on budget issues warns.
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Senate Republicans block equal pay bill
April 9, 2014GOP senators today killed the Paycheck Fairness Act, a mini-version of which President Obama ordered into existence yesterday for employees of federal contractors.
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Immigrant families demand an immediate end to deportations
April 9, 2014Fed up with seeing loved ones deported and families and communities broken up, 11 undocumented immigrants and their supporters were arrested after blocking an intersection.
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