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Insurance companies getting FEMA to pay their post-Sandy bills
November 27, 2012Anger is growing in Brooklyn as thousands in the New York area are told by their insurance companies that they're not covered for damages resulting from Hurricane Sandy.
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$27 million granted to hire New York’s unemployed for Sandy relief
November 27, 2012There were protests to demand power be restored and for more help with the clean up. This situation to too big and too costly for private, profit-making companies to handle.
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“Latino voters have a check to cash” for immigration reform
November 26, 2012Latinos influenced the election outcome in a big way this year, helping to ensure President Barack Obama's second term.
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Today in labor history: Fire kills 25 women workers in Newark
November 26, 2012On this day in 1910 almost two dozen women employed by the Wolf Muslin Undergarment Company of Newark New Jersey died after the building caught fire. Six were burned to death and 19 died from jumping...
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NHL lockout is major labor struggle
November 26, 2012This is the fourth sports lockout within the last two years. It is the third lockout and fourth labor stoppage for NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
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