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AFL-CIO, big biz unite to urge Congress to fund infrastructure
March 6, 2019"Public-sector pay, benefits, and labor rights must be protected when special interests push privatization and contracting-out schemes."
Read moreLawmakers ready to pass sweeping HR-1 reform bill
March 6, 2019House is about to pass the For the People Act, a major election, voting rights, and ethics law reform measure.
Read moreLawmakers move to end anti-worker, anti-consumer forced arbitration
March 5, 2019“One of the fundamental principles of our democracy is that everyone gets their day in court. Forced arbitration deprives Americans of that basic right."
Read moreImpeachment talk heats up; Nadler points to “abuse of power”
March 4, 2019Trump is implicated now in crimes and misdeeds that go way beyond the issue of Russia. His financial deals could end up getting him impeached.
Read moreHave the rich always laughed stiff tax rates away?
March 1, 2019No wonder the U.S. finishes near the top of the world’s wealthier nations in the income inequality spread between the rich and the rest of us.
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