John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Shutdown cost: $24 billion and counting
October 18, 2013The government shutdown may be officially over but its estimated cost of $24 billion to the American taxpayers will continue to rise every day for a long time to come.
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Lawmakers scramble on government shutdown and debt ceiling deal
October 16, 2013The solution, in any case, is only temporary with another showdown or shutdown possible again early next year.
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Subway fires worker for giving a 3-year-old a cookie
October 15, 2013We've heard of ridiculous excuses companies use to fire pro-union workers, but a Seattle Subway shop takes the cake...er, cookie. Working Washington reports the firm fired Carlos Hernandez for giving a 66-cent cookie, free, to a...
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Pressure mounts against GOP-led shutdown
October 11, 2013Workers, their unions and lawmakers joined hands Oct. 10 outside the Capitol to demand that Republican House Speaker John Boehner allow a vote on legislation to open the government and raise the debt ceiling.
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Dog poop and hipsters rated higher than GOP-run House
October 10, 2013Voters surveyed also put hemorrhoids, toenail fungus, potholes, and zombies on the list of things they liked better than Congress.
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Obama picks full-employment advocate Yellen to head Federal Reserve
October 9, 2013President Obama has nominated Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve vice chair, to run the Federal Reserve, the most important central bank in the world.
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Report: Nissan in Mississippi is violating international labor law
October 8, 2013The company is in violation of the standards on freedom of association, the report notes, because of Nissan's "aggressive interference" with workers attempting to exercise their fundamental right to organize a union.
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Top pollster says Americans will punish Republicans for shutdown
October 2, 2013"When all is said and done, the most telling thing that people will remember is that at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, the Republicans shut down the government."
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