Mark Gruenberg

Award-winning journalist Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of the union news service Press Associates Inc. (PAI). Known for his reporting skills, sharp wit, and voluminous knowledge of history, Mark is a compassionate interviewer but tough when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

Politics

‘Justice for George Floyd’ petition sets record: 17 million names
June 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
There are petitions, and there are petitions…and then there’s the petition by started by a 15-year-old Portland, Ore., girl.
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News

Stephen Smith, progressive W.V. candidate, turns campaign into anti-COVID battalion
June 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Whoever wins will face well-entrenched and well-financed Republican incumbents in now mostly red West Virginia.
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News

Congressional Dems unveil big police reform package
June 8, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The lawmakers flew into D.C., despite the coronavirus pandemic, to showcase the Justice In Policing Act. And they challenged their congressional GOP colleagues to act, too – a challenge most Republicans have so far rejected.
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Labor

Trump Labor Department issues low-ball figures for May jobless rate
June 5, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly declined 1.2 percentage points in May, to 13.3%, according to low-ball figures issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on June 5.
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Labor

One third of labor force now jobless as pandemic unemployment climbs
June 4, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Official jobless claims in this new great depression hit 42.65 million; real number estimated at 50 million or more.
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Labor

Trumka, other labor leaders, commit unions to the fight against racism
June 4, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
They declare the fight must include key moves at the ballot box this fall, starting with Trump’s removal from the White House.
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Politics

Biden offers a sharp contrast to Trump in remarks on the uprising
June 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“It’s all at stake. That is truer today than ever. And it’s in this urgency we can find the path forward…To paraphrase Reverend (William) Barber, it’s in the mourning we find hope.”
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Politics

Illinois Gov. Pritzker, others warn of Trump’s dangerous turn
June 2, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Pritzker was irate, saying afterwards that Trump “is strictly trying to make himself sound like a strong man – almost like a dictator.” HRF blasted Trump’s “frightening turn towards despotism.”
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