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EPA to hire the unemployed in Michigan

September 8, 2011 By John Case

The program will specifically target Michigan's youth - who suffer nearly 50 percent unemployment rates in Detroit.

Hundreds arrested in pro-environment civil disobedience

September 7, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The demonstration is the longest sustained civil disobedience action since the civil rights movement and the largest since 1977.

Public support grows for government jobs program

September 7, 2011 By John Wojcik

"Let's make our country what it should be," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday.

Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals

September 7, 2011 By John Bachtell

Steelworkers and 1,000 others protested against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.

Federal judge temporarily halts Alabama anti-immigrant law

September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A federal judge temporarily halted Alabama's anti-immigrant law - a measure so harsh that it makes Arizona's notorious law and its prejudice against Hispanics look mild by comparison.