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GOP tries to pit immigrants against unemployed

January 17, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Senate Dems were unable to get cloture on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for people who have run out of eligibility without having been able to find work.

House GOP draining $600 million a week from economy

January 7, 2014 By Kenneth Quinnell

"It is fiscally irresponsible not to extend unemployment benefits. The long-run cost to the taxpayers will be much higher from disconnecting people from the labor market."

1.3 million jobless could go over the cliff Dec. 28

December 10, 2013 By John Wojcik

"I was once the main breadwinner but now we are not really able to make ends meet."

GOP blocks immigration reform

December 3, 2013 By Emile Schepers

As the year 2013 draws to an end, the fight for immigrants' rights, and especially for the legalization of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants believed to be in the United States, continues.

Senate curbs filibusters in blow against GOP “pirates”

November 22, 2013 By John Case

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Democrats, fed up with endless Republican obstructionism, voted to end filibusters on nearly all presidential nominees.