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Massachusetts: job creation up, unemployment down

May 23, 2012 By Dan Margolis

Perhaps the nation's most Democratic and liberal state, Massachusetts has experienced months of declining unemployment rates.

Latina moms in Chicago: “We’re done crying!”

May 23, 2012 By John Wojcik

Except for one grandmother, the rest of the 20 or so women who patrol the streets around Davis Elementary School here every weekday are in their 20s and 30s.

Taxi! Taxi! Cabbies form unlikely union

May 14, 2012 By Robert Struckman

If you ask a cab driver, there's a good chance he or she will tell you, "I'm a member of the National Taxi Workers Alliance."

Labor’s top organizer sees long fight ahead

May 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor groups, Latinos, African-Americans, women, and students must unite in a years-long campaign to restore and reclaim workers rights.

Trumka: America’s economic lead is not a given

May 11, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Below are excerpts of a speech by Richard Trumka to the Center for National Policy, a think tank that in concentrated on national security issues.