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Obama projects massive recovery plan

November 26, 2008 By Susan Webb

Although nearly two months remain until President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he has moved onto center stage on the deepening economic crisis, declaring he will launch a massive jobs program to jumpstart the economy where it...

Let the nation own Big 3

November 25, 2008 By Norma Jeanne Strobel And Ralph Shaffer

When H. Gaylord Wilshire sought the Southern California congressional seat in 1890, he ran on a very simple platform: 'Let the Nation own the trust.' The part time farmer and full time reformer was responding to...

A letter to my brother Newt Gingrich

November 25, 2008

From Huffington Post Dear Newt, I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protestors of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O'Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you...

Fight for working people has just begun, labor leaders say

November 23, 2008

To turn economy around, more union members are necessary WASHINGTON, D.C. – When you approach the building that houses the national offices of the AFL-CIO in the shadow of the Washington Monument here the first thing...

Freeze foreclosures and heat up jobs plan, spirited rally tells Congress

November 22, 2008

CHICAGO – Dozens of labor and community activists rallied here in front of the Federal Building Nov. 21 urging Congress to put a freeze on home foreclosures and to bail out Main Street, not Wall Street,...