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Missouri-Kansas People’s World hosts 25th Annual Hershel Walker ‘Peace and Justice’ Awards
May 17, 2017Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine, gave the keynote address and congratulated the awardees for their commitment to the labor movement and creating a just and equitable society for all working people.
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Retirees, unions oppose GOP health care bill
May 17, 2017AARP, the nation’s largest organization of retirees, is already sending out mailers and running broadcast, cable and radio ads against the GOP plan.
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The attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is rapid and brutal
May 16, 2017Donald Trump is pursuing the same bogus strategy Republicans did when they tried to create a crisis in the Social Security disability insurance trust fund.
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AFL-CIO Report: Santander bank exec looted Puerto Rico’s infrastructure fund
May 16, 2017Labor leaders call on Carlos M. Garcia to resign from the “Junta” or PROMESA Control Board.
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North Carolina voter suppression law is dead
May 16, 2017MaryBe McMillan, Secretary Treasurer of the North Carolina AFL-CIO, told People’s World that it was “a good day for voting rights.”
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