coronavirus
Chicago teachers say remote learning only way to keep kids safe
July 24, 2020"We call on the schools and the mayor of this city to have a heart...make sure our students can be educated remotely until it is safe,” declared Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union vice president.
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Some 2.3 million more seek jobless benefits; 52 million since March
July 23, 2020A combined 2,345,946 people filed for state or federal jobless benefits in the week ending July 18, the Labor Department reported.
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D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed
July 23, 2020The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.
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GOP says workers are lazy, don’t deserve HEROES Act unemployment help
July 22, 2020Are the majority of Americans lazy and averse to work? Would they prefer not to work and to enjoy a free ride from the government? Republicans say yes.
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Arizona’s first-ever nurses’ union contract signed in Tucson
July 22, 2020It took 18 months of negotiations, including a one-day strike a year later, before an agreement was finally reached with the employers.
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