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Iraqi women protest proposed Islamic law

March 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Iraqi women demonstrated against a draft law that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.

Official February unemployment at 6.7 percent

March 10, 2014 By PAI

U.S. Unemployment rose by 0.1 percent in February, to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.

Today in women’s history: “General” Harriet Tubman dies

March 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Called "general," "Moses" and "one of the bravest persons on this continent," Harriet Tubman, born around 1820, died today in 1913.

New postal union leader seeks to halt latest privatization scheme

March 10, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

As far as Mark Dimondstein is concerned, the members of the Postal Workers are going to be out in the streets even more than they already are.

House GOP ambushes NLRB, again

March 7, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Using the excuse of decrying "ambush elections," the Republican right wingers who dominate the House Education and the Workforce Committee ambushed the NLRB at a March 5 hearing on the board's proposal