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Despite snow, students lobby for #DebtFreeFuture

March 24, 2014 By Andrea Perkins

College students face many issues today, including raising tuition rates and cuts to programs. Student loan debt topped $1 trillion and is expected to reach (and even surpass) $1.3 trillion.

Michigan same-sex marriage ban overturned, but not for long

March 24, 2014 By John Rummel

We were "excited, nervous, just like everyone else would feel," said Kim Hettinger and MaryAnn Northcote of Waterford.

Dioxins unearthed at U.S. base in Okinawa stir furor

March 24, 2014 By Susan Webb

"They were 55-gallon and, on occasion, 30-gallon drums. You could smell the chemicals and a few were stenciled with 'Defoliant' in white with 'Property KAB Special Services."

Socialist Bachelet returns to Chile presidency

March 24, 2014 By Brian McAfee

For the second time, Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as president of Chile, Mar. 11. Bachelet's first term as president of Chile ran from 2006 to 2010.

Today in women’s history: Coalition of Labor Union Women founded

March 24, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On March 24, 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women was founded by some 3,000 women trade unionists from 58 labor organizations at a meeting in Chicago.