unemployment
22 million jobless, Senate Republicans go home for Thanksgiving without passing aid
November 20, 2020The Democratic-run House tried twice to reinstate the $600 weekly checks with the Heroes Act, but Senate GOP leader McConnell killed it both times.
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On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment
October 29, 2020Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.
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Organizing report: Dallas Stops Evictions expands tenant movement to South Dallas
October 26, 2020DSE activists are expanding their tenant organizing to more areas of Dallas, to apartments where horrendous living conditions are the norm.
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Democrats right to close the door on McConnell’s sham COVID rescue bills
October 22, 2020McConnell's goal was simply to give Republican Senators some flimsy evidence to claim they supported rescue measures that Democrats didn’t vote for.
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GOP Senate ignores 24 million unemployed workers, schedules Barrett vote first
October 22, 2020The panel’s ten Democrats boycotted the vote to move the Barrett nomination, calling the vote a sham. They said the priority should be an economic rescue package.
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