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GOP launches “race to the bottom” for Michigan environment
July 27, 2011"Racing to the bottom on environmental protection and worker safety isn't a jobs plan for Michigan," said Mark Schauer, national co-chair of the BlueGreen Alliance Jobs 21! campaign.
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NAACP confronts new Jim Crow racism
July 26, 2011Vote suppression and denying ex-felons the right to vote are the new Jim Crow laws of the 21st century, says NAACP leader.
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Finally, a new hospital rises in post-Katrina St. Bernard
July 26, 2011The slowness to rebuild the health care system served the interests of those seeking to permanently remove poor people and many working families from the area, union leaders and others here say. Unions have taken up...
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Jerry Brown signs Calif. Dream Act, part I
July 26, 2011Tthe first phase of the California Dream Act, signed July 25, makes it possible for undocumented college students to apply for privately funded scholarships administered through the state's university and community college systems.
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On the Gulf, bipartisan backing for federal money, and unions
July 25, 2011The enormous tasks of rebuilding after Katrina also has at least one local Republican siding with the unions.
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