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Obama budget funds job creation, ups minimum wage

March 5, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Obama's proposed budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 would increase spending for innovative manufacturing and infrastructure improvements and raise the federal minimum wage.

Youth march and celebration inspires struggle for equality

March 5, 2014 By Joelle Fishman

When Mayor Toni N. Harp declared Feb. 23, 2014 as "Craig Gauthier day in the City of New Haven," the overflow crowd at the Peoples Center burst into cheers.

After gas explosion, Chevron offers victims free pizza

February 28, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The Chevron-owned fracking well shot flames into the air with a powerful boom, starting a fire that burned intensely for four days afterward before it was extinguished.

Labor’s Southern strategy finds a focus in Texas

February 26, 2014 By Álvaro Rodriguez

Thiry-four percent of Houston's children live in poverty. Overall, 22 percent of the people live below the official poverty level, with racial minorities the hardest hit.

Canadian right trying to copycat U.S.-style voter suppression

February 26, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

The right-wing Conservative Party government of Stephen Harper is trying to push through U.S. Republican-style voter suppression legislation in Canada.