Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Trump’s, Schumer’s and Pelosi’s “art of the deal” draws praise and criticism
September 7, 2017The agreement increases the debt limit by enough money to fund past federal obligations and pay for upcoming ones through December 15. It also includes a temporary money bill to keep the government going, at current...
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Latino labor conference turns into pro-Dreamers, anti-Trump march
September 7, 2017The conclave, planned long before, coincidentally began on September 6, the day after Trump and his anti-Latino Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, threw 800,000 young undocumented people, most of them Hispanic-named, out of the country by cancelling...
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Dreamers and allies fight on after Trump lowers boom
September 6, 2017“We've been here paying taxes, and paying back taxes. Nothing’s been returned to us, because we’re not citizens.”
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Would be Mexican president tackles low wages, jobs and corruption
September 6, 2017“There is nothing that has done more damage to Mexico than the dishonesty of the people running the government."
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Beware! Financial protection agency shuts down shady credit repair outfit
September 5, 2017“Consumer advocates are watching with horror as Congress unravels long-standing consumer protections."
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Texas federal judge permanently kills Obama overtime pay expansion
September 5, 2017Had the overtime rule stayed in effect, federal overtime pay law would have covered up to 12.5 million workers.
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Changing demographics mean workers today need new protections
September 1, 2017The stereotype of the U.S. workforce, harkening back to the 1950s, of Daddy going to work and Mommy staying home to take care of the kids is dead.
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Though elections are next year unions already revving up
September 1, 2017Governors’ races are particularly important to workers next year because most of the governors will have power over redistricting.
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