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Payroll tax, jobs and Social Security
September 6, 2011One part of the jobs program that President Obama will be presenting this week is an extension of the payroll tax reduction. Some activists and economists are opposing an extension, claiming that it will undermine Social...
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Secretary of Labor Solis signs migrant workers rights agreements with Latin American countries
September 5, 2011U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis signed agreements with three more Latin American countries (for a total of six) on the protection of certain rights of migrant workers. The right wing is, predictably, yelling "betrayal".
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Job and wage loss major issues on Labor Day
September 5, 2011A report on U.S. occupations - sorting 366 defined jobs data into high-income, middle-income and low-income posts - reveals data to back what workers know by instinct: The jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession were...
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The massacre at Ishaqi, Iraq
September 2, 2011U.S. troops entered the house and killed the civilians before calling in the airstrikes. Autopsies showed all had been handcuffed and then shot.
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With walruses on thin ice, Shell pursues Arctic drilling
September 2, 2011As global warming threatens the wellbeing of Alaskan walruses, the government has exacerbated the issue.
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