PITTSBURGH — “How would you feel if you worked a lifetime to build a great company, made sacrifices to save the company and now are being told that the company, after paying millions in bonuses to top management and investing in low-wage countries, needs to close more American plants? 
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Oct. 14, 2006
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PITTSBURGH — Laughter, cheers and applause filled the Steelworkers union headquarters here, Oct. 7, when Allegheny County Labor Council President Jack Shea introduced steelworkers who had forced Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to flee into a subway closet the day before.
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WASHINGTON — “Under the Influence,” an Oct. 9 report by Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, exposes the torrent of corporate cash pouring into the coffers of Republican incumbents scrambling to stave off defeat in the Nov. 7 election.
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El derecho al voto está en peligro para millones de gente en Estados Unidos al ir a las urnas este noviembre, dicen activistas pro derecho al sufragio.
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Las revelaciones reciente sobre la política del presidente Bush y el liderazgo derechista republicano en el Congreso le da al movimiento popular aun más municiones para luchar contra el control de estos del futuro del país.
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ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Los votantes del estado de Missouri recientemente obtuvieron una histórica victoria con respecto a los derechos de los votantes.
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Un estudio encuentra que el sistema de servicios médicos de Estados Unidos tiene grave fallos. El informe fue publicado en la revista Health Affairs de septiembre por el Fondo Commonwealth.
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A major battle over economic and political direction was fought in last month’s Democratic primaries in Brooklyn, N.Y. Nearly 2 million people live in central and downtown Brooklyn. Seventy percent are African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Latinos, Asians and Arabs, overwhelmingly working-class and many poverty-stricken.
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Just a couple of months ago Virginia Sen. George Allen, one of the more nasty reactionary incumbents up for re-election this year, was being talked about as a potential GOP presidential candidate for 2008. As for the Virginia election, people said it was Allen’s to lose, against newcomer Democrat Jim Webb, who is a critic of the Iraq war.
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I was taught by my parents that nothing is free; everything has a cost to someone. How can a society provide free quality education? Were my parents wrong all this time and I didn’t know it?
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