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What does Obamacare mean for young people?

October 2, 2013 By Chauncey K. Robinson

At this point in time, there are about 47 million people in the U.S. without health insurance. This includes a good amount of young people.

Today in labor history: School children strike in Wales

September 5, 2013 By Special to People’s World

During August and September of 1911 there were strikes by schoolchildren in at least 62 towns and cities, showing the huge impact the rail strike had within working-class communities.

March on Washington’s powerful lessons for the environmental movement

September 4, 2013 By Marc Brodine

Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, the environmental movement has both moral and practical aspects. It needs a strategy that unites both inside and outside struggles and goals.

Taking the long view on fight for freedom

September 4, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner

As one of 250,000 who attended the 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," I had to come to Washington, Aug. 24, to be a part of the 50th anniversary march.

The power and hope of the March on Washington

August 27, 2013 By Joelle Fishman

It was thrilling to travel from New Haven to Washington with a bus full of young people age 7 on up looking for hope and eager to act. At the march, they collected over 200 signatures...