All News Articles for 2018-02-01
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Fight for $15 and Rev. Barber Announce Fast-Food Worker Strike for Racial Justice and Voting Rights On the 50th anniversary of the sanitation workers' march in Memphis, labor advocates and the new People's Poor Campaign will come together across the South Read more |
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With Latest Dystopian Step, Amazon Sparks Worries With Patent on Worker-Tracking Wristband Patent designs detail how wristbands would vibrate if wearer moves hand "incorrectly" when completing warehouse work Read more |
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'End This Charade': Top Dems Demand Ryan #RemoveNunes Amid #ReleaseTheMemo Mayhem Letter from Schumer and Pelosi arrives amid looming decision by White House and concerns that FBI director may quit post if misleading document made public Read more |
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'Kicking Off Black History Month,' Trump Guts CFPB's Ability to Curb Racial Discrimination by Banks "These changes threaten effective enforcement of civil rights laws and increase the likelihood that people will continue to face discriminatory access and pricing as they navigate their economic lives." Read more |
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Internal Analysis Revealed Trump Plan Would Cost Workers Billions, So Labor Dept Buried Study Worker advocates say it "shows the lengths to which the Trump administration and Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta will go to hide the fact that they are taking steps to actively make workers' lives worse." Read more |
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Poll: 82% Say Trump Interview With Mueller Should Be Under Oath The survey also found more than 60 percent of Americans support passing legislation to prevent Trump from unilaterally firing Mueller Read more |
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'Cruel and Unconstitutional': Trump Official Proposed Experimental Method to Reverse Detained Teen's Abortion Trump appointee who now heads the Office of Refugee Resettlement discussed reversing the abortion an undocumented teenage girl had fought to obtain Read more |
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San Francisco Shows Nation Way Forward by Throwing Out Old Marijuana Convictions "While drug policy on the federal level is going backwards, San Francisco is once again taking the lead to undo the damage that this country's disastrous, failed drug war has had on our nation and on communities of color in particular." Read more |
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In Latest 'Giveaway to Polluters', Trump EPA Suspends Clean Water Rule Rescinding the regulation will put the drinking water of one in three Americans in danger of pollution, critics say Read more |
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'Days Numbered' for Fossil Fuels: Sanders Backs Demand for Rapid Energy Transformation "The issue in front of us is not a scientific debate," the senator said. "It has everything to do political will." Read more |
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'Delivered From the Heart!': Trump Lies About Historic SOTU Viewership Fact check: Trump's address actually had "fewer viewers than the first SOTU's for Obama in 2010, Bush in 2002, Clinton in 1994." Read more |
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ICE Director Brags About How Much He's 'Enjoying' Tearing Immigrant Families Apart "There's a special place in hell for those who get off on broken families and profit off of incarcerating innocent people." Read more |