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Chicago students walk out to protest education cuts
April 9, 2010More than 500 high school students walked out of classrooms at public schools city wide to massive education budget cuts.
Read moreWhite House to fight attempts to weaken finance reform
April 8, 2010Deputy Treasury Secretary Neil Wolin declared yesterday that "the administration will oppose efforts to provide exemptions for certain kinds of lenders."
Read moreMourners stage vigils for miners; Blankenship updates Twitter page
April 8, 2010Hundreds of mourners staged candlelight vigils in West Virginia towns the evening of April 7 honoring the 29 coal miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, April 5, and for...
Read moreMegan Fox to governor, “Don’t terminate our teachers”
April 8, 2010Megan Fox fights for public education in a great, new video.
Read moreMajor jobs bill faces GOP filibuster vow
April 7, 2010A day after Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., vowed to block all future jobs bills, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights called on members of Congress to co-sponsor the Local Jobs for America Act.
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