I got this email from Senator Bob Casey, about a new piece of legislation he’s introduced:
During the 2006 campaign, I wrote you often about children’s issues. I pledged that once in the Senate I would make this a primary focus and that together we would fight for the health care, education, and child care that [...]
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Barack Obama in Allentown yesterday:
If you agree, maybe it’s time to join a PA neighborhood team and help bring that change. Just over three weeks ’til primary day in PA. Click here to find out more.
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This headline from CtW Connect:
In 2007, Workers’ Wages Saw Biggest Drop in 17 Years
It seems like the need for unionization has never been greater. At the same time, it’s vital to make sure the contracts we bargain remain strong and offer the best chance for workers to attain the American dream.
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“The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
That’s from Warren Buffett, the second-richest [...]
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The “American Dream” has seen better days. Is it any coincidence that the Labor movement’s most glorious moments seemed to go hand in hand with America’s most shining and hopeful times? The following is from Robyn Blumner’s editorial this past Sunday:
American social and economic mobility had a bright, shining moment in the middle of the [...]
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