Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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U.S.
Nationwide rallies protest “Trumped-up” national emergency
February 19, 2019Tens of thousands of people demanded Congress end GOP President Donald Trump’s “national emergency."
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Opinion
Voting Rights Act of 1965 may have to be passed again
February 19, 2019The Voting Rights Act produced an enormous change for both African-Americans and U.S. politics.
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News
Opponents move to stop Trump’s “national emergency” power grab
February 15, 2019President’s declaration seen as a plot to keep alive the wall issue that the GOP is using to stir racism and fear ahead of the 2020 elections.
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News
Trump judges blow big hole in age discrimination law
February 15, 2019When Congress enacted the ADEA in 1967, its drafters had no reason to expect judges would be acting as grammarians. Then, the Supreme Court and lower courts interpreted anti-discrimination laws as broadly as possible
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Labor
Slow recovery for federal workers after Trump shutdown
February 15, 2019The workers gave those gloomy predictions in the face of Trump’s lack of commitment to signing a spending bill to keep those agencies going through the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30.
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Labor
Consumers League blasts Trump decision to let payday lenders run amok
February 14, 2019“Whether a consumer is applying for a mortgage or borrowing to pay the electric bill, no one should be given a loan that they cannot possibly pay back.”
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News
House to Trump: Get out of Yemen
February 14, 2019“More than 14 million Yemenis — half the country — are on the brink of famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war. Let’s end...
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Labor
Federal workers fear Trump could rerun shutdown/lockout
February 13, 2019“If the shutdown returns, the (workers’) lines to food banks will return. And if we don’t get paid and can’t work.”
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