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Emergency funding urged to prevent worst school cuts in 50 years
April 21, 2010Tens of thousands of teachers and other school staff are facing layoffs across the country for the coming school year, along with slashed programs, larger classes and shortened school weeks.
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Break up megabanks, progressives urge
April 21, 2010Labor and progressives warn against the danger of moves on Capitol Hill to weaken finance reform.
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Chicagoans throw cold water on privatization plan
April 21, 2010CHICAGO - Rumors that a plan to privatize this city's drinking water is in the pipeline have residents alarmed.
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Some sobering notes on African American equality
April 21, 2010The fact that institutionalized racism persist in our country is rooted in the historical reality of 250 years of slavery followed, after a brief period of civil war and democratic reconstruction, by over seventy years of...
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Wall Street moves to crush $50 billion fund
April 20, 2010The GOP's back room talks with Wall Street began to explode in the faces of Republican senators yesterday.
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