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Chicago community fights petcoke, pile by pile

March 10, 2015 By Blake Skylar

For one community, the Windy City has been blowing something other than a healthy breeze.

Progressive think tank backs Obama crackdown on federal contractors

March 10, 2015 By PAI

Facing hostility of big business and the GOP, a progressive think-tank went to bat to defend President Obama's cracking down on federal contractors who break labor laws.

Today in women’s history: Social reformer Lillian Wald born in 1867

March 10, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Founder of the Henry Street Settlement House in Lower Manhattan, Lillian Wald was born March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati to a family of German Jewish professionals.

Latest GOP challenge to Obamacare reaches Supreme Court

March 10, 2015 By David Sobelsohn

If the court majority rules for the four plaintiffs, over 9 million working Americans could lose access to affordable health insurance.

West Virginia workers launch “insurrection” in state capital

March 10, 2015 By John Case

Demonstrators protesting the national wave of wage and safety cuts and anti-union assaults, were led by the West Virginia AFL-CIO and joined by national labor leaders.