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Some government workers still unpaid, fear another shutdown
February 7, 2019Even as they scramble to catch up on unpaid bills, the prospect of another shutdown looms next week.
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Donald Trump’s speech goes low, Stacey Abrams’s response goes high
February 6, 2019That, in essence, is the contrast between Trump’s 92-minute speech from the U.S. House rostrum and Abrams’s shorter, positive, reply from an Electrical Workers union hall in Atlanta.
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Raise the Wage Act would hike salaries for 40 million
February 5, 2019Backed by a wide range of unions and women’s groups, veteran lawmakers, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act -- a measure designed to put enforcement “teeth” into...
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New Yorkers rally against Trump’s Venezuela coup
February 4, 2019“The imperialist system is a threat to all of the issues that we face,” Cameron Orr, a representative of the Communist Party USA, said at one event.
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Peace advocates say leaving INF Treaty increases risk of nuclear war
February 4, 2019The agreement has been seen as a landmark in the decades of struggle to achieve complete and verifiable nuclear disarmament.
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