Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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BLS jobs report shows U.S. employment crash continues
July 2, 2020Donald Trump’s happy talk today notwithstanding, the nation’s current depression, the employment crash caused by closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic, continues.
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Farmworkers: Big California farm sickens workers, families with coronavirus
July 2, 2020Primex is only making a bad situation worse by bringing in replacement workers for its ill employees, from the outside and through labor contractors, a common tactic growers use to exploit workers in the nation’s farms...
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Teachers: High Court opens way for taxpayer dollars for religious schools
July 1, 2020The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision allowing Montanans tax credits to pay for tuition at private – read “religious” – schools will cut dollars available to public schools and kids.
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Coronavirus comeback boomerangs into a disaster
July 1, 2020The coronavirus pandemic is roaring back with Dr. Fauci warning now that we may see 100,000 new COVID 19 cases per day.
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Panel on Black workers: Government action critical
June 30, 2020“If we don’t figure this out, lives could be at stake."
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House OKs anti-redlining bill, 230-178
June 30, 2020GOP President Donald Trump’s regime wants to let banks redline communities of color. The Democratic-run U.S. House doesn’t.
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Supreme Court tosses Louisiana anti-abortion law, drawing cheers
June 30, 2020Pro-choice groups warn, however, that the fight continues in the courts and requires dumping Trump in November.
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Biden backs strikers at Bath Iron Works
June 29, 2020“The union has struggled and bargained over decades to make these safe, quality jobs that Maine workers can survive in over a long career and earn a decent living."
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