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• Migrant & Seasonal Farmworkers to Get $84 Million from Dept of Labor for Job Training and Housing
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• Poverty will be larger and permanent after Covid-19 is gone.
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• Dr. Rachel Maddow's best seller, DRIFT
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• Corporate Welfare:
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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

  Aug 22 2014

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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?
  	Mon Sep 12, 2016 | newyorker.com On August 26th, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand for the national anthem, as a protest against police brutality. Since then,...

• 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...

• Special Report: For Islamic State, wheat season sows seeds of discontentSpecial Report: For Islamic State, wheat season sows seeds of discontent
  	Tue Jan 20, 2015 | reuters.com As the season for wheat planting in Iraq wound down early last month, farmers in areas under the control of Sunni militant group Islamic State grew worried. More than...

• How Mass-Produced Meat Turned Phosphorus Into PollutionHow Mass-Produced Meat Turned Phosphorus Into Pollution
  	Thu Jan 02, 2014 | npr.org Excess phosphorus can run off into streams and lakes and become an ecological disaster.

• Amendment To Farm Bill Could Be End To Humane Farming StandardsAmendment To Farm Bill Could Be End To Humane Farming Standards
  	Sat Nov 16, 2013 | huffingtonpost.com A proposed amendment to the $1 trillion federal farm bill is of concern to both states’ rights and humane farming advocates as Congress looks to finalize the bill passed in...

• Plain Talk: Sad email underscores how GOP divides us Plain Talk: Sad email underscores how GOP divides us
  	Wed Feb 22, 2012 | host.madison.com Dave Zweifel of the Capitol Times writes about how a rural Wisconsin farm worker takes out her animosity on public sector workers. Her view "underscores how successful the...

• JOHNSON: Thankful for farmers, ranchersJOHNSON: Thankful for farmers, ranchers
  	Sun Nov 18, 2012 | rapidcityjournal.com On Thursday, families across the country will gather around the table to celebrate Thanksgiving. I have much to be thankful for this year, including a loving wife, children...