Recession
Comptroller: NYC paying slumlords millions to house homeless
March 29, 2010The Department of Homeless Services is wasting millions of dollars on services that lack oversight, some of which are overtly illegal, according to recent audit of the DHS.
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Labor rally calls for jobs, protests Bank of America
March 22, 2010A spirited lunchtime crowd of some 2000 workers heard local, state and national leaders slam Wall Street and urge action and large-scale investment for jobs.
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It’s time to tax the wealth in Connecticut
March 19, 2010Representatives of Better Choices for Connecticut released a report outlining several options to stop Governor Rell's proposed budget cuts on vital needs and services by taxing the rich.
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Double dip danger
March 15, 2010What does the economic future hold? The commentators in business media are like fortune tellers, reading the future in a bunch of soggy tea leaves. Fewer jobs lost than expected in February? The economy must be...
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Republic Windows heroes continue the good fight
March 9, 2010Armando Robles, president of UE Local 1110 sat down with the People's World to reflect how life has changed since the sit-in.
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