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Today in labor history: Fast-food workers strike for $15 in seven U.S. cities

July 29, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Fast food workers walked off their jobs and demonstrated in the thousands for a higher paycheck - $15 an hour.

Presidential candidates knocking at labor’s door this week

July 29, 2015 By John Wojcik

The AFL-CIO hopes to lay out a strategy to unite workers across the country behind its Raising Wages Agenda and behind a broad program of progressive action.

Cincinnati community marches to demand justice for Samuel Dubose

July 28, 2015 By Tim Steinhelfer And Kirsten Hendershot

Over 300 community members marched from the campus to the site of the fatal shooting death of Samuel Dubose to demand the release of police body camera footage of the incident.

Poverty and child brain damage

July 28, 2015 By Thomas Riggins

When it comes to how we treat children, UNICEF ranks the U.S. at 34 out of 35 industrialized countries; 22 percent of children in the U.S. live in poverty

Minnesota, workers want AT&T to comply with state paid leave law

July 28, 2015 By Barb Kucera

Corporate defiance by AT&T led members of CWA and their families to rally outside the U.S. Courthouse in Minneapolis on July 17.