Special to People’s World
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Environment
This week in history: The National Park Foundation is established
December 18, 2017The National Park Service is consistently rated among the most popular federal government programs.
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Culture
New Deal art, Blackfeet language preservation among projects receiving NEH grants
December 15, 2017“These new NEH grants exemplify the agency’s commitment to serving American communities through investing in education initiatives, safeguarding cultural treasures, and illuminating the history and values that define our shared heritage.”
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U.S.
Health care workers: Save the ACA individual mandate
December 14, 2017A non-partisan analysis found 13 million people would lose access to health care through the repeal of the ACA individual mandate.
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Labor
This week in history: American Marxist Daniel De Leon is born
December 13, 2017Daniel De Leon is regarded as the forefather of the idea of revolutionary industrial unionism and was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor Party of America.
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World
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins Nobel Peace Prize
December 12, 2017The world faces a choice between two endings: the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us.
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Labor
Santa goes on strike, demands Walmart bring back holiday pay
December 7, 2017"It’s time Walmart do the right thing and provide holiday pay for its 1.5 million workers—the same holiday pay it used to provide in 2015 before it decided to ‘Grinch’ it’s workers."
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World
This week in history: A century of Finnish independence
December 5, 2017The new country overcame a tumultuous political period following their declaration of independence.
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World
This week in history: UN approves Jewish and Arab states in Palestine
November 27, 2017Seventy years ago, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181, remembered as the UN Partition Plan.
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