Jobs
Labor leaders say unions will unite behind one candidate in 2016
February 21, 2016The federation is holding off on an endorsement at this time while some of its unions work for Clinton and others for Sanders.
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Justice Dept. to prosecutors: Tackle job safety crimes, other abuses
February 19, 2016The point is to make violations of job safety more costly to errant companies, hopefully deterring the firms from breaking the law in the first place.
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Inequality by the numbers
February 11, 2016We Americans like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country where the top is not out of reach and the bottom doesn't pose such a grim, cautionary specter.
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Behind Flint water horror, a corrosive cynicism
February 3, 2016Republican Governor Rick Snyder's men have wreaked untold economic damage on the residents of Flint on top of the threat to their health.
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Cruz out to save souls, not to create jobs
February 1, 2016In Des Moines, Iowa, it was much more like a fundamentalist Christian revival meeting than a political rally.
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