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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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Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas slain Monday
May 16, 2017Valdez was shot and killed today near the offices of Ríodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003 in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, according to reports.
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This week in history: The National Center for Lesbian Rights is born
May 15, 2017It is the only organization in the U.S. dedicated to lesbian legal issues, and the largest national lesbian organization in terms of members.
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