Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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News
Low-wage workers, progressive Dems push minimum wage hike
March 9, 2018Half of the 26 million full-time minimum-wage workers and two-thirds of all minimum-wage workers including part-timers, are female, 11 million are parents and 4.5 million of them are single parents.
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Politics
Senate on verge of capitulating to bankster lobby
March 8, 2018“Too many senators seem willing to ignore the lessons of the financial crisis, and what happens when we let big banks write the rules of the economy."
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U.S.
Ohio Rep. Ryan: Dems still leaving blue-collar workers behind
March 8, 2018"If we’re going to reclaim a middle class, it’ll have to be with a strong, robust and growing union movement.”
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Labor
In polarized capital, partisans agree on treating first responders for PTSD
March 7, 2018Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on something: First responders, especially Fire Fighters, suffer the mental and psychological anguish of PTSD.
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Labor
Administration admits it didn’t “think” before giving worker tips to bosses
March 6, 2018Trump's Labor Department did not survey the “quantitative” impact of letting bosses grab workers’ tips before yanking the rule designed to prevent such theft.
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Labor
Uline exec backs “right-to-work” and right wing causes
March 5, 2018Richard Uhlein, the Illinois mega-donor executive, has contributed $500,000 to the effort to make Missouri a “right-to-work” (RTW) state.
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Environment
Speakers: Five months after hurricane Puerto Rico still a mess
March 2, 2018The federal response to the catastrophe that struck the island commonwealth’s U.S. citizens is terrible and ideologically slanted.
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Labor
Steelworkers and Ohio lawmakers welcome Trump’s tariff on dumped steel
March 2, 2018The move by Trump is seen as a response to pressure from workers in the industrial heartland suffering from layoffs.
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