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Bad, bad, bad jobs report: Unemployment at 8.1 percent
March 8, 2009Original source: Stunningly bad news on the nation’s jobless rate today: Unemployment worsened to 8.1 percent in February, from 7.6 percent in January, the highest level in more than a quarter century, according to Labor Department...
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Zimbabwean PM injured in car accident
March 8, 2009HARARE, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was hurt in a car accident Friday, and the injuries are not life-threatening. Tsvangirai and his wife were involved in a head-on collision. His wife died...
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Vigil held to protest murder of undocumented worker
March 7, 2009SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A poster-sized photograph with flowers and votive candles formed a sidewalk altar in front of the Sacramento County Main Jail Feb. 26, as more than 40 activists held a press conference and protest-memorial...
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Homeowners fight foreclosure injustice
March 7, 2009BALTIMORE—Louis Beverly, an ACORN leader here, used a bolt cutter to break the lock on Donna Hanks foreclosed home so she could move back into the house in east Baltimore she lost in foreclosure. Baltimore police...
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Waiting begins on Prop. 8 ruling
March 7, 2009Now that their testimony has been heard in California’s Supreme Court, the wait has begun for marriage equality activists seeking to overturn a constitutional amendment passed by voters in November, declaring that marriage is between a...
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