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Finally: aid to 9/11 heroes approved after GOP yields
December 23, 2010The GOP finally relented and allowed 9/11 first responders funding for health care and other needs - but only after nine years and an intense grassroots campaign.
Read moreLabor, environment, rights groups launch campaign for Internet expansion
December 20, 2010The Communications Workers of America, NAACP and the Sierra Club have come together to launch a campaign for what they say is a much needed faster and more available Internet in the United States.
Read morePeople’s World honors social justice, equality activists
December 09, 2010CHICAGO - Not even the bitter cold weather could stop more than 100 labor, community, religious, environmental and equal rights activists from celebrating the People's World 23rd Annual Banquet here Dec. 5.
Read moreDespite Christmas hiring, unemployment rate jumps
December 03, 2010Just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the GOP pushes for tax breaks for billionaires as America's economy crumbles.
Read moreEnvironmentalists hail Obama curb on offshore drilling
December 02, 2010In a move called "wise and sensible, the Obama administration announced yesterday that it is withdrawing plans for expanding oil drilling in the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean.
Read moreGOP blocks jobless aid, vows to kill all Dem-backed bills
December 01, 2010Millions of Americans are almost certain to lose their unemployment checks this month after Congress failed to extend benefits by the Nov. 30 deadline.
Read moreGOP poised to pull lifeline from jobless
November 29, 2010If Congress fails to immediately extend benefits more than two million jobless workers will lose their lifeline in December.
Read moreIn Sarah Palin’s Alaska, rival Lisa Murkowski triumphs
November 17, 2010Alaska's Republican write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski beat tea party fav Joe Miller, despite Sarah Palin's best efforts to ice the incumbent.
Read moreSchakowsky issues progressive deficit plan
November 17, 2010A leading congressional progressive issued a counter-plan to the one advocated by the deficit commission's co-chairs. The plan would reduce deficits - but not on the backs of working people.
Read moreHouse GOP freshman: I want my government health care, now!
November 16, 2010"This is the only employer I've ever worked for where you don't get coverage the first day you are employed," the right-wing GOP representative-elect said.
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