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• UPSPAC and Your Rights (TDU.org)
  Before you give any of your hard-earned cash to UPSPAC, you should know that they will use that money to undermine your pension security, health and safety rights, and other worker protections.
• Time Is Not on Our Side (Anmerican Rights at Work)
  In case you needed a reason to press Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act...
• Our Gilded Age (The Nation)
  You have to go back to before World War I to match today's levels of income and wealth inequality.
• Why the Long Primary Battle with Clinton Will Actually Help Obama Win in November (The Huffington Post)
  In the end, the long primary season has set the stage for what could be a transformational election that sweeps Obama into the presidency, and substantially bolsters Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
• Make wearing a flag pin the 28th Amendment (CNN.com)
  ... Shouldn't we insist that our politicians all begin to sport red, white and blue socks in order to feel good knowing that they are walking as Americans?
• When Bills Pile up, Here's One That Hurts (Philly.com)
  Opening credit counseling to for-profits in PA means a loss for consumers
• You Own You (Washington Monthly)
  Like mobsters offering "protection" to frightened store owners, credit-reporting agencies have recently begun taking advantage of the identity-theft boom to offer information age protection to frightened consumers.