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COMMENTARY: The door to real change is wide open

July 8, 2009 By Sam Webb

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama...

Push begins for new stimulus bill

July 8, 2009

As the reality of a recession far worse than anyone believed it was earlier this year takes hold, labor and its allies are laying the groundwork for another stimulus battle this fall. They are making their...

Haitian and Dominican workers build solidarity

July 7, 2009

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — A delegation of Haitian unionists met in Santo Domingo July 1-2 with unionists from the informal sector of the working people of the Dominican Republic. The encounter was held at the...

Labor-backed think tank: Second big stimulus needed to ease worst crash since 1929

July 7, 2009

A top economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said today that this month’s jobless figures and other economic indicators show the “urgent need” for “a second stimulus package as large as or even bigger than”...

Health industry lobby buys 350 former government officials

July 7, 2009

The country’s biggest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members, including former members of Congress, in order to influence the health care debate taking place in the nation’s capital,...