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Housing is key to solving jobs crisis

January 27, 2014 By Pat Barile

Our country is plagued by a severe jobs crisis. The crisis is on-going and the longer it lasts, the larger the number of permanently unemployed.

Pope demands accountability from corporate leaders meeting in Davos

January 27, 2014 By Press Associates And Workday

As corporate and government leaders gathered for the World Economic Forum, a new poll showed that workers worldwide are struggling to survive on low wages.

Barn owls face armageddon

January 27, 2014 By Peter Frost

The barn owl population has declined from use of agricultural poisons and rat and mouse baits so popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

Today in labor history: 109 coal miners die in explosion

January 27, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The coal miners were underpaid Eastern Europeans who were told not to complain about their substandard and dangerous working conditons.

Pennsylvania unions cheer blocking of new voter ID law

January 27, 2014 By Press Associates

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO is cheering a judge's ruling bouncing the state's GOP-passed "voter ID" law, but the story isn't over yet.