Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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News
VA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care
December 23, 2020Staff shortages are not new, but now they’re really bad.
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Sports
Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book
December 18, 2020This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.
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Opinion
Republican Senate should get off its ass and help hurting people
December 18, 2020Almost 14 million jobless people will lose their aid checks the day after Christmas. 12 million could be evicted. And for 310,000 people there will be no aid at all, because they are dead.
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News
With poverty rising, Poor People’s Campaign takes case to Biden
December 18, 2020The coalition says the GOP ignores the poverty issue or blames the poor, while the Dems simply concentrate on the "middle class."
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Labor
Two corporate coverups: Amazon on coronavirus data, Uber on sexual assault
December 17, 2020California officials aren’t pulling punches when it comes to going after big corporate capitalists who harm workers, even though it’s the holiday season.
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Labor
Virus deaths, joblessness soar as Senate’s ruling Republicans dither
December 17, 2020As jobless rates and death rates rise faster than ever the McConnell-led Senate still dragging its feet on aid to the people.
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Labor
Transport unions laud Buttigieg, Biden pick for Transport Secretary
December 16, 2020OPEIU wants Levin as Labor Secretary.
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Politics
Too little, too late COVID aid bill may pass today
December 16, 2020It took tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, mass joblessness, and hunger before McConnell’s GOP would even budge.
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