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Labor, green groups unite to push Jobs Plan and Families Plan

June 30, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Congress seems hell-bent on passing a stripped-down version of the Jobs Plan and—thanks to rigid Senate Republican opposition and filibuster threats—doing nothing at all about the Families Plan.

Historic Child Tax Credit starts in July—up to $300 per child monthly

June 25, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

In mid-July, eligible families will start receiving monthly payments of $300 for each child under 6, and $250 monthly payments for each child ages 6 to 17.

Biden agenda pushes jobs, families, equality, wage hikes, and unions

April 29, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Broad positive reaction to a speech in which he took note of history by addressing for the first time ever, “Madame Speaker” and “Madame Vice President,” two women next in line to the presidency

Fixing family separation policy will be a tough job

January 19, 2021 By Al Neal

It was an evil policy designed to stir up hatred in the Trump base.

A statue in verse for Friedrich Engels’s partner Mary Burns

November 25, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

There can be little doubt that Mary Burns was instrumental in introducing Engels to the horrendous conditions of the Manchester proletariat. She knew intimately the conditions of families at work and in their typhus- and cholera-stricken...