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  • Guess what? The New Deal worked!

    Guess what? The New Deal worked!

    February 19, 2009 By Steven Conn

    Since the economic crisis we're now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being offered are being routinely compared to the New Deal. Republicans in particular have been quick to pronounce the New...

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  • Detroit honors sit-downers, new and old

    Detroit honors sit-downers, new and old

    February 19, 2009

    DETROIT — Sit-downers past and present were honored here recently during a “workers’ victory tour” by members of United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 1110 who last December staged a successful sit-down at the Republic Windows plant...

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  • Obama unveils four-step housing fix

    Obama unveils four-step housing fix

    February 19, 2009

    Up to 9 million families facing home foreclosure could see relief under President Barack Obama's newly unveiled housing plan announced Feb. 18 in Mesa, Arizona. The plan 'will give millions of families resigned to financial ruin...

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  • Toyota to suspend domestic output

    Toyota to suspend domestic output

    February 19, 2009

    Original source: Japanese carmaker Toyota announced on Wednesday that it plans to suspend domestic output in April, a day after US corporation General Motors revealed that it is to slash 47,000 jobs worldwide. The latest cuts...

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  • Dresden tremors still felt 64 years later

    Dresden tremors still felt 64 years later

    February 19, 2009

    DRESDEN — A large-scale anti-fascist action Feb. 13 ended with brutal violence here. Feb. 13 has, for years, been a day of solemn ceremonies in this city on the Elbe, the capital of Saxony. It marks...

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