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Obama’s Alaska visit highlights climate already changed
September 4, 2015Each particular battle is but one part of the longer struggle to transform our energy economy, our economy as a whole, how things are produced, packaged, and distributed.
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Report explores why unions have few female leaders
September 4, 2015When women run organizing drives, the drives are more likely to succeed; they show women - especially minority-group women - benefit the most from being unionists.
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Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons
September 3, 2015Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.
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Decolonize the land: Native people welcome Mt. Denali name change
September 3, 2015President Obama announced that his administration would change the name of Mt. McKinley to its original Indigenous name, Denali, a word that means "High One" in Athabascan.
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St. Louis workers celebrate increase in minimum wage
September 3, 2015In all, about 50,000 low-wage workers in St. Louis will see an immediate pay increase come October 15.
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