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The Congressional Budget Office minimum wage controversy

February 24, 2014 By John Case

"Every time momentum builds for lifting wages, conservative ideologues say it will cost jobs. Every time they've been dead wrong."

Report shows strong public support for Endangered Species Act

February 21, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The report was based on a poll which found that two out of three U.S. citizens want the Endangered Species Act either strengthened or simply left alone, but not circumvented or weakened.

Powerful interests mobilize to end U.S. anti-Cuban blockade

February 19, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba, cruel and reviled across the globe, has persisted for as long as the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I.

Demonstrators demand justice for Jordan Davis

February 19, 2014 By Antoinette Laveaux

A week of action is taking place here all this week demanding Dunn be retried. Yesterday people wore black ribbons in remembrance of Jordan Davis.

Unions double down on Southern organizing after loss in Tennessee

February 19, 2014 By John Wojcik

"You can always count on the brave workers it takes to ensure that all workers will, in the end, participate in how decisions are made at their workplaces."