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How redlining led to rioting: Police and segregation
September 29, 2015A hundred years ago, St. Louis and Baltimore adopted ordinances prohibiting African Americans from moving to blocks where whites predominated.
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USW-ArcelorMittal steel talks to resume
September 29, 2015"Steel jobs provide decent living wages and help support a lot of other jobs in the community; the company wants to take that away."
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Today in history: The first intercontinental radio transmission, 1915
September 29, 2015The demonstration was transmitted from the U.S. naval radio station at Arlington to San Francisco, then a few hours later relayed to Honolulu, for a total of 4900 miles.
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AFL-CIO’s veep: With others unions can change the nation
September 29, 2015"The union movement should join with others who are saying 'instead of building more prisons, we should be creating more jobs and offering more job training.'"
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Fed up with “Walmart wages,” Alabama auto parts plant goes union
September 28, 2015"Jobs in the auto industry helped build America's middle class, but today they are adding to the nation's low-wage crisis."
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