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Check out the AFL-CIO's officers and policy team's reactions to the State of the Union (after the jump).
Schools closed, hundreds of flights were scrapped and cities blew the dust off the few snowplows they have Tuesday as the Deep South hunkered down for what could be its worst snow and ice in a generation.From Texas to the Carolinas, almost 40 million people are in the storm’s path.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
The gap in reading proficiency between lower- and higher-income fourth graders has grown by 20 percent in the past decade, says a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Aware that he would never get to meet her, the husband of a pregnant, brain-dead woman nonetheless named their unborn child before his wife was taken off life support Sunday.
Two girls who vanished from a sleepover and sparked a widespread search were found late Monday 15 miles from their hometown, police said.Raylynn Bolt, 12, and Diana Tourdot, 14, were found by police within two blocks of each other in San Bernardino, Calif., police told The Associated Press.
A brutal winter freeze began to descend on the Deep South early Tuesday with a huge swath of the region in the crosshairs of a storm that forecasters called "potentially paralyzing."The storm was still in its infancy at 3:30 a.m.
Pete Seeger, the iconic banjo-strumming folk singer and activist who performed for migrant workers and presidents, died on Monday. He was 94.
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All three people aboard a helicopter were killed after it snagged a power line and crashed Monday in rural western Colorado, authorities said.
