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Obama: Collective bargaining can close the income gap

December 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

In a wide-ranging speech on the state of the economy, President Obama took sharp aim at income inequality, citing the growing gulf between the rich and the rest of us.

Medina, other immigration reform fasters, step aside for reinforcements

December 4, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Eliseo Medina and his fasting colleagues ended their D.C. vigil by handing off the fast to a group of successors.

Detroit bankruptcy: Revenue, not spending, the problem

December 3, 2013 By John Rummel

The ruling concerns the 23,500 retired city workers collecting pension benefits.

GOP blocks immigration reform

December 3, 2013 By Emile Schepers

As the year 2013 draws to an end, the fight for immigrants' rights, and especially for the legalization of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants believed to be in the United States, continues.

San Jose won’t give up on immigration reform

December 2, 2013 By Henry Millstein

Protestors called on Congress and the Obama administration to stop deportations and enact comprehensive immigration reform, making it clear that they weren't going to stand idly by while the Republicans in the House leadership block a...