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In 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.
Read moreGOP push millionaire tax break, cut off of unemployment
November 15, 2010Republicans want to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, but they won't commit to extending unemployment compensation for millions of workers at risk of losing their benefits at the height of the holiday season.
Read moreDebt panel to workers: Drop Dead!
November 11, 2010The Nov. 10 preliminary report from the federal budget deficit commission "tells working Americans to 'Drop Dead.'"
Read moreTax cuts for the rich? Fight in Congress begins
November 10, 2010On Saturday President Obama repeated his position that tax cuts for the middle class should be continued and tax cuts for the rich should be ended, but one Democrat is already caving in to Republicans.
Read morePeople's World to pick up labor journalism prize
November 08, 2010A People's World editor will be among those honored by the nation's labor journalists for excellence in their craft.
Read moreObama signals he will push Congress for action on economy
November 08, 2010President Obama signaled this weekend that he will push for action on the economy during the lame duck Congress this month.
Read moreNew House leaders kiss up to Wall Street
November 04, 2010The Republican takeover of the House makes the new Congress friendlier to big business - and incoming GOP leaders are moving fast to turn those expectations into reality.
Read moreTrumka: Voters don't want to go back
November 02, 2010AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said as he wrapped up campaigning in Philadelphia on Election Day that voters "don't want to go back to the times when Wall Street controlled everything."
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