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Poultry workers: Poster-child for Employee Free Choice Act
August 20, 2008WINESBURG, Ohio — After working 20 years at the Case Farms poultry plant here Ken Brown, 55, gets $8.10 an hour. “You can’t live on that,” he said, “especially with the rising prices of fuel and...
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Obama will stand by us, say vets
August 20, 2008John McCain has developed a veterans problem. In late May, McCain aided a Republican filibuster of the 21st Century GI Bill by refusing to return to the Senate to for a key vote. In fact, McCain...
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A Desire Named Streetcar
August 20, 2008As U.S. working people try to cope with job losses, housing foreclosures and evictions, runs on banks, and pain at the gasoline pump, they face one more: the crisis of mass transit. Here is the paradox:...
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Bring back the Tree Army
August 20, 2008Celebrating 75th anniversary of Civilian Conservation Corps points to job, education possibilities for today DECEPTION PASS STATE PARK, Wash. — The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) put millions of jobless youth to work planting trees, fighting forest...
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Torture victim fights for freedom
August 19, 2008Every day Mark Clements prays to God in his prison cell that one day he will be a free man. He has been incarcerated since 1981–27 years–for a crime he says he did not commit. A...
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