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Joint session of Congress to hear the president on jobs
September 1, 2011President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner agreed Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, ending yet another GOP attempt to embarrass the president.
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Family hopeful after deportation delay
September 1, 2011A few hours after Wednesday's press conference to protest the Friday deportation of Florencio Avila Cachu, word was received the case will be reviewed.
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“America Wants to Work” kicks off this week
August 31, 2011The AFL-CIO and its allies will spend weeks organizing an "America Wants to Work" campaign to focus on what they see as the nation's real crisis: jobs.
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Ohio Republican forced to retract voter supression threat
August 31, 2011Facing calls by area members of Congress for a Justice Department investigation, Secretary of State John Husted retracted a threat not to process mail ballot applications sent to voters by the Cuyahoga County government.
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The Keystone Pipeline: can labor and environmentalists work together?
August 31, 2011Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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