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Medicaid fight in Virginia takes off

January 28, 2014 By Emile Schepers

The new Democratic governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, is pushing hard for Virginia to sign onto the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Medicaid Expansion Program.

On recession’s sixth anniversary, U.S. still down 8 million jobs

January 9, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Six years after the onset of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy needs nearly 8 million jobs to return to pre-recession health.

Emergency action urged on unemployment benefits

January 2, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Call Congress at 1-877-318-0483 with the message "extend unemployment insurance now."

Austerity debate remains unresolved after shutdown drama

November 12, 2013 By John Case

There was one victory the neo-Confederate Republicans can claim that even the old Confederacy could not: the ability to shutdown the federal government, a symbol of their supreme distaste for both union and democracy.

Nowadays it doesn’t take tanks to overrun Europe

November 5, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

Because Germany has the biggest economy in the EU, and is at the center of a "core" of wealthy nations that also use the Euro - France, Austria, and the Netherlands - Berlin largely calls the...