economy
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More families depend on school lunch program
Since the inception of reduced-price or free school lunch programs, students from low-income families have depended on and utilized them.…
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Bank of America taken to task in St. Louis
In the fall of 2008, Bank of America received $25 billion of bailout money through the Troubled Asset Relief Program,…
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Wachovia drug laundering settlement: class justice
Wachovia, a banking subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, agreed March 17 to pay a $160 million settlement for its…
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Black women, with only $5 to our name
A shocking study revealed to the world that the average median wealth for women of color between the ages of…
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Stop the Toyota plant closure in Fremont, Calif.!
Toyota announced plans to close its New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif. on April 1. The closure…
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San Francisco transit agency slashes service
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency heard public comment on Feb. 26 regarding a proposed 50 percent fare hike on…
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Illinois House makes cuts to free transit rides for seniors
On Feb. 24, the Illinois House voted 83-27 to drastically reduce the free rides for seniors program on Illinois public…
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Senate passes paltry ‘jobs bill’
The U.S. Senate passed a $15 billion "jobs bill" Feb. 24. The money allocated amounts to a little more than…
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Long-term unemployment rising despite “recovery”
Despite rosy projections of "economic recovery," millions of workers remain out of work, without savings, and exhausting their unemployment benefits.…
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Numbers of unemployed and poor facing utility cutoffs in California soar
The war against the poor continues in California, where a struggle against utility disconnections has broken out in response to…
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