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GOP launches “race to the bottom” for Michigan environment

July 27, 2011 By Joel Wendland-Liu

"Racing to the bottom on environmental protection and worker safety isn't a jobs plan for Michigan," said Mark Schauer, national co-chair of the BlueGreen Alliance Jobs 21! campaign.

NAACP confronts new Jim Crow racism

July 26, 2011 By Luis Rivas

Vote suppression and denying ex-felons the right to vote are the new Jim Crow laws of the 21st century, says NAACP leader.

Finally, a new hospital rises in post-Katrina St. Bernard

July 26, 2011 By John Wojcik

The slowness to rebuild the health care system served the interests of those seeking to permanently remove poor people and many working families from the area, union leaders and others here say. Unions have taken up...

Jerry Brown signs Calif. Dream Act, part I

July 26, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Tthe first phase of the California Dream Act, signed July 25, makes it possible for undocumented college students to apply for privately funded scholarships administered through the state's university and community college systems.

Employers cheat workers and the tax man

July 26, 2011

Construction companies are cheating the state out of as much as $175 million a year, according to a commentary by the Texas AFL-CIO.