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Barney Frank retires, leaving a strong progressive legacy
December 6, 2011Liberals, labor and progressives mourned while Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief when Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., announced his retirement Nov. 28 after 30 years in office.
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Transport union defends members in airline bankruptcy
December 5, 2011The Transport Workers "will do everything possible" to vigorously protect 23,400 members who work for American Airlines and its American Eagle subsidiary as the carrier goes through bankruptcy, officials say.
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Putting the Occupy movement in historical perspective
December 5, 2011Indeed there is civil unrest! Workers cry out for justice, as workloads grow and wages stagnate while owners' profits soar, as jobs are sent overseas.
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Jobless rate drops to 8.6% because 315,000 drop out altogether
December 2, 2011This morning's government report was full of unsettling statistics.
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Jobless enter Capitol, demand benefits extension
December 1, 2011Two hundred unemployed workers marched into the halls of Congress yesterday and served their lawmakers with 75,000 signatures on petitions demanding extension of unemployment benefits for the six million Americans about to lose them.
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