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Job-related deaths average 150 per day, report says
May 8, 2013In 1970, Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising workers in this country the right to a safe job. Since that time, workplace safety has improved.
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Quakers unite, and inspire, on gun violence
May 8, 2013The Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, have an expression called "holding in the light..."
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Today in labor history: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded
May 8, 2013Representing the Pullman Porters, the Brotherhood was the first African-American labor union to sign a collective bargaining agreement with a major U.S. corporation.
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Only one place to cut: Pentagon
May 8, 2013There is a smart, good, and doable solution. We must move the money to invest in programs that will create jobs and turn the economy around.
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East Coast to be overrun by billions of cicadas
May 8, 2013Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast.
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