John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
October 13, 2010The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of...
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Wall Street Journal warns labor could stop GOP in its tracks
October 13, 2010Evidence that all the media hype about a coming GOP victory in the mid-term elections may be totally off base surfaced Oct. 12 in a warning to the ruling class from the Wall Street Journal.
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Anti-union groups use election to push far-right agenda
October 12, 2010The same far-right anti-union groups that blocked the Employee Free Choice Act and opposed hiking the minimum wage are pouring more than $400 million into the 2010 mid-term elections.
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95,000 more jobs are lost
October 11, 201095,000 jobs were lost in September because the private sector added only 64,000 jobs while government employment went down by 159,000.
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In tea party town would fire fighters watch as houses burn?
October 7, 2010Last week the nation saw a preview of life in an America as envisioned by ultra-right tea party types - a country where everything will be "privatized," more frightening than anything the cinema has to offer.
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Poll: candidates backing health care likely victors in November
October 6, 2010Fifty-four percent of voters say they would be more likely to back a candidate who supported health care reform. That number includes 51 percent of independents and 70 percent of Democratic voters.
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GOP candidates target minimum wage
October 5, 2010A look at races across the country shows that many Republicans are attacking a concept Americans have long held sacred - the federal minimum wage.
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$189 billion in profits to buy elections, but none for jobs
October 4, 2010America's corporations, awash with a record $189 billion in profits earned in the last business quarter, are spending their money not to create jobs, but to buy the midterm election next month.
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