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As rescuers scramble to save people from catastrophic flooding, you can do your part without even leaving your couch.
As rescuers scramble to save people from catastrophic flooding, you can do your part without even leaving your couch.
U.S. forces have shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii in a test amid heightened regional tensions.
Labor Day 2017: Working People Take Fewer Vacation Days and Work More
Working people are taking fewer vacation days and working more. That's the top finding in a new national survey, conducted by polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the AFL-CIO in collaboration with the Economic Policy Institute and the Labor Project for Working Families. In the survey, the majority of America's working people credit labor unions for many of the benefits they receive.
In response to the poll, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said:
Union workers empowered by the freedom to negotiate with employers do better on every single economic benchmark. Union workers earn substantially more money, union contracts help achieve equal pay and protection from discrimination, union workplaces are safer, and union workers have better access to health care and a pension.
Here are the other key findings of the survey:
1. Union membership is a key factor in whether a worker has paid time off. While 78% of working people have Labor Day off, that number is 85% for union members. If you have to work on Labor Day, 66% of union members get overtime...
Hurricane Harvey Reminds Us That Budget Choices Make a Difference in People's Lives
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As Hurricane Harvey pummels the Gulf Coast with 130 mile per hour winds, epic flooding and a deadly storm surge, Congress is preparing to make momentous budget choices that will make a real difference in the lives of people threatened by natural disasters.
Hurricane Harvey reminds us how much we all depend on quality public services—and the people who provide them. Yet the Trump administration is proposing drastic cuts to vital disaster response to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations.
The administration’s proposed cuts to disaster response include $667 million to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, $62 million to the National Weather Service, $967 million to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and $190 million to the National Flood Insurance Program.
FEMA is the federal agency most critical to emergency management. The Trump administration is urging Congress to slash FEMA funding that helps cities and states prepare for natural disasters, including hurricanes and coastal...
Houston residents are being warned to stay inside and avoid sightseeing at tropical storm Harvey moves east.
Houston residents are being warned to stay inside and avoid sightseeing at tropical storm Harvey moves east.
Televangelist Joel Osteen said on Wednesday his Houston megachurch was not initially asked by the city to become a shelter, and waited to open out of caution.
Harvey made landfall again early Wednesday, coming ashore in western Louisiana near the border with Texas.
Televangelist Joel Osteen said on Wednesday his Houston megachurch was not initially asked by the city to become a shelter, and waited to open out of caution.
