Elections
AFL-CIO head: If you’re not supporting us we won’t support you
May 20, 2011AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said he supports unions taking an independent political approach in their fight to build the power of workers.
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Jim Crow move over, the Wisconsin GOP is here
May 18, 2011Voters will for the first time be required to show photo identification this summer in recall elections seeking to unseat several Republican legislators.
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Mitt Romney’s Mexican roots
May 18, 2011If the nation were to deny the children of immigrants birthright citizenship, as some GOP legislators believe we should, could Mitt be deported?
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What will it take to pass a jobs program?
May 18, 2011The failure to enact a big enough economic stimulus is the biggest reason the country's in this mess. Obama and the movement that led to his election were too young; the victory was too new and...
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Wisconsin voter ID bill slammed as vote suppression
May 17, 2011State AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt called it "an attempt to block the recall of unpopular GOP senators and to suppress turnout among constituencies who may tend to vote Democratic."
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