National
The status of immigration reform today
July 15, 2009Immigration reform of some sort is underway, but it is running a zigzag course of small positive moves and other very negative ones. Labor and immigrants’ rights organizations are asking that grassroots activism and pressure be...
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Mass transit can ease Michigan woes, group says
July 15, 2009DEARBORN, Mich. — Detroit wasn’t always singularly known as the Motor City. Once it was also known as a city that had an extensive streetcar system where people had a choice of how they “motored” around....
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Obama reported firm in his support for EFCA
July 14, 2009A top aide to one of the union leaders present at a White House meeting with President Obama today said the president remains firmly committed to passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, the bill that...
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Senators praise Sotomayors empathy for poor, voiceless
July 14, 2009WASHINGTON — With Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sitting in the witness chair, Democratic senators praised her wide-ranging judicial experience and her empathy for working people and the oppressed. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings on...
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Minority unemployment debated in NY mayor’s race
July 14, 2009NEW YORK—William, an African American in his twenties from Brooklyn, works the trains. He goes car to car, selling candy and hustling money through gambling. While most New Yorkers are familiar with street hustlers who bet...
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