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• Reduce the trade deficit; increase GDP & median wage.
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• Recovering the American Dream...by Reversing Corporate Outsourcing & Work Visas and Halt Illegal I...
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• Super-Centers Are Leaving Part-Time Workers To Fend For Themselves

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  Walmart, our nation's largest retailer, is cutting some 30,000 part-time employee's health care benefits, due to the rising costs for the company.
• Labor Day Milestone: Fair Labor Wasn't A Standard Until 1938

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  It's standard in today's American workplace to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. But did you ever wonder where they came up with those numbers in the first place? The short answer, labor unions lobbied Congress for decades until The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
• Raise The Minimum Wage to 1968 Standards, It's Only Fair

  Apr 21 2014

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  In the last two State of the Union addresses by President Barack Obama, the raising of the minimum wage has been brought up. Obama urged the nation to vote on and be in support of proposed legislation that would raise the minimum wage from the national level that it is now at $7.25/hour to a more reasonable sum of $9.00/hr in his 2013 address, and $10.00/hour in his 2014 address.

• Why Are Police Unions Blocking Reform?Why Are Police Unions Blocking Reform?
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• Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leaveObama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave
  	Mon Sep 07, 2015 | reuters.com President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican...

• Why the New York Times’s Amazon story is so controversial, explainedWhy the New York Times’s Amazon story is so controversial, explained
  	Mon Aug 17, 2015 | vox.com On Sunday, the New York Times published a massive exposé of Amazon's "punishing" work culture. The company, the Times alleged, "is conducting a little-known experiment in...

• When Public Servants Refuse to Serve the PublicWhen Public Servants Refuse to Serve the Public
  	Sun Aug 16, 2015 | theatlantic.com Thirty-five years ago, as a reporter for The Washington Post, I spent 13 weeks following young recruits through Marine Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. That...

• In states with more guns, more police officers are killed on dutyIn states with more guns, more police officers are killed on duty
  	Sat Aug 15, 2015 | vox.com What policies can save police officers' lives? A new study suggests that limiting access to guns could help — a lot. The study, published in the American Journal of...

• Study: Most States Have No Black Prosecutors, and Most District Attorneys...Study: Most States Have No Black Prosecutors, and Most District Attorneys...
  	Tue Jul 07, 2015 | theatlantic.com It’s no mistake that the most enduring fictional prosecutors are white guys—whether they’re dignified older men like Jack McCoy or hotheaded, handsome younger ones like Dan...

• Healing a Wounded Sense of MoralityHealing a Wounded Sense of Morality
  	Fri Jul 03, 2015 | theatlantic.com Amy Amidon has listened to war stories on a daily basis for almost a decade. As a clinical psychologist at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, she works with a...

• On the reason for the RevolutionOn the reason for the Revolution
  	Wed May 09, 2012 | downbythedocks.net Taxation without representation and the idea of less than 2% of working class in congress.Out of control GOP,trying to limit poor and minority votes.No representation.How...