economy
Labor turns up heat in battle to curb Wall Street
April 13, 2010In a national webcast today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said, "We are taking this fight straight to Wall Street. They created this mess and now they have to pay."
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Three grim tales from the Big Apple
April 13, 2010Ranked third or fourth richest city in the world, will New York tell its young generation that it cannot provide shelter, or classrooms, or even transportation to school?
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Call for actions on jobs: America’s most pressing need
April 13, 2010The AFL-CIO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and others are calling for immediate and powerful grassroots action for the Miller Bill, to create or save up to one million jobs in local governments.
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Northern Manhattan mobilizes against budget cuts
April 12, 2010More than 1,000 residents held a unity rally on Saturday to mobilize against proposed budget cuts that will have a devastating effect on this predominantly Latino and black working class community.
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Financial reform: lesser and greater questions
April 12, 2010The entire progressive agenda hinges in large part on breaking the stranglehold finance capital has on our democratic institutions.
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