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Machinists fight for their pensions
February 2, 2010"If predatory bankers can come in here and steal the pensions these workers earned, then nobody in our nation is safe!" said Jim McClellan, president of International Association of Machinists District 54.
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Blackwater swamp keeps on bubbling
February 2, 2010The Justice Department has begun a criminal fraud investigation of the company, its employees face criminal charges, but it keeps doing its dirty work under a tangle of names.
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Senate moving toward smaller jobs bill
February 2, 2010The jobs bill now being drafted in the Senate, only half the size of the one passed by the House in December, is "not enough."
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After Supreme Court ruling, unions fear opening of corporate cash floodgates
February 2, 2010Leaders of the nation's largest unions came out in unanimous opposition to the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend as much as they like to influence the outcome of elections in the United...
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Expect major changes in No Child law, officials say
February 2, 2010The Obama administration is proposing major changes to the nation's No Child Left Behind education law.
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