economy
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Chicago workers resist mayor’s assault on social services, health care
PSLweb/Liberation takes a look at the anti-worker offensive taking place across the country in the form of budget cuts. Chicago’s…
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Workers turn to food stamps to keep families fed
The skyrocketing dependence on food stamps has joined foreclosures, layoffs and depleted pensions as a measure of the growing suffering…
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Kodak retirees protest planned benefits cuts
Retirees of Eastman Kodak Co. have recently staged a series of protests in response to planned cuts to their health…
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Oakland to protect officials’ salaries, police funds at workers’ expense
PSLweb/Liberation takes a look at the anti-worker offensive taking place across the country in the form of budget cuts. For…
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Community action behind Cook County moratorium on evictions
Sheriff Tom Dart in Cook County, Ill., made news headlines after he placed a moratorium on foreclosure-related evictions Oct. 9.…
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Tent cities spring up across country as homelessness soars
As the economic crisis worsens and bailouts go to the wealthy bankers on Wall Street, working-class suffering grows. For months,…
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85 billion reasons for AIG executives to party
Rationalizing the $85 billion bailout of insurance giant American International Group in September, a Treasury official reaffirmed U.S. Treasury Secretary…
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Capitalist-promoted pension gambling costs workers $2 trillion
As the capitalist economic crisis continues to deepen, the top Congressional budget analyst recently stated that U.S. pension plans have…
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Working-class spending more on household necessities
According to a recent report by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, spending by U.S. families as a whole on basic…
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Indiana law to limit garage sales
A new law passed by the Elkhart, Ind., City Council has limited residents to one garage sale a month, apparently…
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