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Labor leads campaign for moratorium on foreclosures

October 6, 2010 By Joe Sims

Calls for a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures come after several large banks revealed widespread irregularities in procedures for home repossessions.

California Senate contenders slug it out in debate

October 1, 2010

Boxer said her Republican opponent, while CEO of Hewlett Packard, "laid off 30,000 workers, shipped jobs overseas, and she says she's proud of her record - well, that's her record."

Hope is stronger than hate

September 28, 2010 By Jarvis Tyner

In their effort to win the Congress this year and the White House in 2012, the Republican Party and their tea party attack dogs are unashamedly promoting fear, racism, bigotry and red-baiting.

GOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam

September 24, 2010 By John Wojcik

It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."

Republican “pledge”: kill jobs, give money to rich

September 24, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

While the GOP plan would deliver this harsh blow to working families, it would add some $629 billion to the deficit in order to provide new tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans.