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Raise the minimum wage
March 28, 2012Despite claims of economic recovery heard recently, median weekly worker income for most months of the past two years, just like most years of the past 35 years, is either flat, or less, than the year...
Read moreCanada’s dirty little sub prime loan secret threatens to sink housing market
March 9, 2012While the U.S. is still suffering from the sub prime debacle, Canada's housing market is an island of tranquility.
Read moreMortgage agreement: a small step forward
February 13, 2012Housing, labor, and civil rights advocates and elected officials are giving a thumbs up to the accord reached between 49 state attorneys general and banks involved in the mortgage crisis.
Read moreTrumka: Big Banks’ payment on mortgage settlement good first step
February 13, 2012A $26.5 billion settlement between the states' attorneys general and big banks over the financial finagling with mortgage-backed securities is a good first step, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says.
Read moreOakland police arrest hundreds of Occupy protesters
January 30, 2012Police arrested some 400 demonstrators Jan. 28 in response to the latest attempt by Occupy Oakland activists to occupy a vacant building and establish a new encampment there.
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