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An audacious vow by the Obama Administration to end veteran homelessness in two years — an initiative that's shown progress but is off pace to fully succeed — got a potentially strong nudge Thursday when leaders of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs proposed legislation to help plug lingering holes in the existing veteran safety net. A central theme of the Homeless Veterans Prevention Act o...
Wednesday, May 1, is May Day, when working families, labor unions and their allies will be celebrating the holiday honoring workers and uniting in the struggle for immigrant and workers' rights.
Ed Sills of the Texas AFL-CIO sends us this:My wife and I are big fans of “The Good Wife,” which, besides the inspired-by-real-events plotline—a wife “stands by” a cheating politician who has a statewide profile—is as fine a legal procedural as I have seen on television. The show combines a “case-of-the-week” approach with the ongoing soap-opera-style plot, and it pops.
We've all seen the charts. As union membership rates go down, so goes the middle class and people's ability to bargain for living wages and a voice on the job. David Madland and Karla Walter from the Center for American Progress (CAP) say, in Top 6 Policies to Help the Middle Class that Won’t Cost Taxpayers a Penny, that strengthening people's ability to organize unions and to bargain collectively will go a long way in rebuilding the middle class.
Here is a great story about unions giving back and making a big difference in their community from David Groves, editor for the Washington State Labor Council’s (WSLC‘s) news site The Stand. Groves reports on the Central Washington Building and Construction Trades Council’s (CWBCTC's) volunteer efforts that provided 100% of the labor to build a 14,000-square-foot warehouse for Second Harvest, a network of 250 neighborhood food banks and meal centers throughout eastern Washington and north Idaho.
The three 16-year-old boys charged in connection with the sexual assault of a high school classmate who later committed suicide have been released to their parents' custody.There are several conditions of their release, the source said, including wearing an ankle bracelet and remaining under house arrest.The teens were arrested April 11 in connection with sexually assaulting Audrie Pott, 15, at a ...
Olivia Nutter, the daughter of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, was assaulted during a high school track meet last week.Lisa Nutter, Olivia's mother, tells NBC10 the 18-year-old was involved in an incident and is fine.The mayor's daughter was walking towards a group of girls at a meet in Germantown, Pa., when one of them told her to move, according to police. Moments later, police say, Olivia Nu...
After more than five weeks, the search for a missing college student from the Main Line could be over.Providence, R.I., police tell the Boston Globe that a body pulled from the Providence River late Tuesday afternoon could "very possibly" be 22-year-old Sunil "Sunny" Tripathi.Police tell NBC10's Jesse Gary that they continue to investigate and that a medical examiner will determine if the body fou...
