News – Page 2916 – People's World

Climate change already impacting U.S., report confirms

May 8, 2014 By Marc Brodine

In the eastern U.S., the number of extreme weather events, including very heavy rain events, has increased already.

Union leaders to lawmakers: pay freezes, furloughs hit federal workers’ morale

May 8, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

"Federal employees are a devoted and resilient bunch. They despise what politicians have done to them."

U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting pays foreign journalists to defame Cuba

May 8, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The U.S. OCB paid almost $700,000 to journalists and other opinion molders in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America in return for their dissemination of anti-Cuban propaganda.

Unionists ignore downpour, bring fast track fight to Capitol steps

May 8, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Hundreds of unionists gathered on Capitol Hill on May 7 to campaign against "fast-track" trade legislation and the anti-worker trade treaties it would lead to.

Fight to stop vote suppression back in North Carolina courts

May 8, 2014 By Special to People’s World

"The North Carolina legislature passed the most sweeping, discriminatory voter suppression bill in the country, then sought to hide their hands and skirt the scrutiny of the law."