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Richard Trumka, 10,000 union members flood Maryland State Capitol

March 15, 2011 By Jordan Farrar

More than 10,000 union members and supporters swarmed the State Capitol in here to protest proposed changes to teacher's pensions and to respond to the recent assault on unions in Wisconsin.

Feb. jobless figures down but concerns rise over govt. cuts

March 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

The nation's official unemployment rate declined ever so slightly for the third straight month in February, down 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week.

Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims

March 15, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.

Miami protests anti-immigrant bills

March 14, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Opponents say if Republicans get their way on immigration in Florida, social, civil and even economic life in Miami and around the state could be severely disrupted.

Prosecution set back in Posada trial

March 14, 2011 By Special to People’s World

Federal custody of evidence in the Luis Posada Carriles case has been a serious ongoing problem. Prosectors link him to several 1997 terrorist bombings in Cuba.