Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Warning from Memphis: U.S. still far from Dr. King’s promised land
April 4, 2018“It’s a call to action, to fight poverty, state by state, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block – a call to action to get to the promised land."
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Politics, coalition-building take center stage at King commemoration
April 3, 2018“We’ve got a job to do, standing together, organizing, mobilizing and educating our communities, house by house, block by block, street by street."
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Speakers: Dr. King trended left before his assassination
April 2, 2018Panelists also pointed out the civil rights leader was increasingly radical in the months before his murder, on everything from denouncing the Vietnam War to launching the Poor People’s Campaign.
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Trump individual income tax cut: $89 a day for the 1 percent; 11 cents a day for the poor
April 2, 2018The bottom 20 percent of taxpayers will get an average tax cut next year of $40 when they file their tax returns next year, covering 2018. They’re the folks making $20,000 or less.
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Government employees warn anti-union drive at Education Dept could spread
April 2, 2018“This administration won’t stop until every union has been busted and every union contract has been ripped up.”
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Money bill: Teachers win, Trump loses, Dreamers in limbo
March 30, 2018Teachers and their unions won, GOP President Donald Trump lost and the fate of the Dreamers is still up in the air.
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Panelists suggest updates for nation’s basic minimum wage, overtime law
March 30, 2018The FLSA still has holes and needs some updating to include workers originally excluded because of race, panelists at a daylong seminar on the act said.
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Opposition mounts to Trump administration attempt to ‘rig the census’
March 28, 2018Opposition is mounting to what one critic calls a Trump administration attempt to “rig the census” by inserting a question demanding citizenship status that would make it likely minorities – especially those with Hispanic surnames –...
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