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Scenes from an uprising: Chicago We Are One (Video)

April 13, 2011 By Scott Marshall

10,000 trade unionists and their supporters from around Chicago and Illinois poured into Daley Plaza downtown.

Millions forced to work while sick

April 12, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Millions of American workers have no paid sick days at all, especially those who need them the most, says a recent "snapshot" by the Economic Policy Institute.

African Americans, women and youth hit hard

April 12, 2011

The Republican assault on the public sector threatens to accelerate the rate at which public employees are being laid off, with especially dire consequences for African Americans and women.

Lawmaker requests federal probe of Wisconsin election

April 12, 2011 By John Wojcik

Rep. Tammy Baldwin has asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a federal probe into the handling of disputed vote records in Wisconsin's April 5 state Supreme Court elections.

Americans tire of “free market,” says poll

April 11, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Since the 2008 economic meltdown, Americans have changed the way they think about the free market economy and now, according to a new poll, are more skeptical of it than the people of even Communist Party-led...