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Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2011, median household income declined, the poverty rate was not statistically different from the previous year and the percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased.

Labor responds to White House event with Wal-Mart

by: Combined Sources 22.Jul

Joint Statement by AFL-CIO Pres.

America: The Grim Truth

by: Thomas Riggins 15.Nov

My corespondant in Thailand sent me this, it is a great description of the USA but the prescription at the end of the article is no good.

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Apartheid Archipelago or Paradise: The Labor Movement in Hawaii
On this episode we talk again with historian Gerald Horne about his new book Fighting in Paradise, a study of the role of the labor movement and the Communist Party in Hawaii in the mid-20th century. This is the first of a two part interview.