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Despite snow, students lobby for #DebtFreeFuture
March 24, 2014College students face many issues today, including raising tuition rates and cuts to programs. Student loan debt topped $1 trillion and is expected to reach (and even surpass) $1.3 trillion.
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Michigan same-sex marriage ban overturned, but not for long
March 24, 2014We were "excited, nervous, just like everyone else would feel," said Kim Hettinger and MaryAnn Northcote of Waterford.
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Today in women’s history: Coalition of Labor Union Women founded
March 24, 2014On March 24, 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women was founded by some 3,000 women trade unionists from 58 labor organizations at a meeting in Chicago.
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Illinois working families face major threat with Rauner primary win
March 24, 2014Working families, organized labor, progressives and other democratic forces face a major threat from the right with billionaire venture capitalist Bruce Rauner.
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Virginia lawmaker uses “tar baby” slur to attack Obamacare
March 21, 2014Southside Virginia has been in the news because of a catastrophic coal ash spill into the Dan River, and now, racist comments by a legislator comparing Obamacare to tar babies.
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