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Historic Child Tax Credit starts in July—up to $300 per child monthly
June 25, 2021In mid-July, eligible families will start receiving monthly payments of $300 for each child under 6, and $250 monthly payments for each child ages 6 to 17.
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Teamsters convention votes to organize Amazon
June 25, 2021Powerful union calls Amazon an “existential threat” to all workers nationally.
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Chicago rallies for community control, ‘first step in abolishing police terror’
June 25, 2021Community control is a strategic move, organizer Frank Chapman says. “It’s the first step to abolishing the whole system of police terror.”
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Before Stonewall: Queer liberation’s Communist Party roots
June 24, 2021The role of Harry Hay and Mattachine in theorizing gay identity was lost in the fog of anti-communism and the pressures for queer people to assimilate to the straight world.
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U.N. again denounces U.S. blockade of Cuba; Biden administration maintains Trump stance
June 24, 2021Among 189 member nations, only the U.S. and Israel opposed the resolution with Colombia, Ukraine, and Brazil abstaining.
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