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Working Families Bear the Burden of Rising Crime and Housing Shortages
Eighteen people died on a single day in Chicago last year. That was not a statistical anomaly. It marked the highest daily toll in city history and anchored a thirty three percent nationwide jump in homicides that has refused to…
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When The Grid Fails Overseas And At Home Working Families Foot The Bill
Ten million people woke to dark homes and silent refrigerators in Havana last Saturday. That marked the third time this month Cuba lost all electricity. The Cuban Electric Union pointed to a broken generator at an aging plant in Camagüey,…
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Sixty Eight American Bridges Face Ship Strike Risks One Year After Tragedy
A single faulty wire on a cargo ship triggered a power failure that killed six construction workers and dropped the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River. That was not an unavoidable accident. It was a mechanical breakdown compounded…
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A Survival Dilemma
He is an ordinary factory worker. As the factory’s performance continues to decline, his wages have been slashed time and again. With elderly parents to support and children to raise—all while shouldering high living expenses and rent—he finds himself barely…
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Job Cuts And Rising Costs Leave Workers Without A Reliable Safety Net
92,000 paychecks vanished from factory floors and retail counters in February, pushing the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent and sending a clear signal that the economic floor is cracking. When a major bank like JPMorgan puts the odds of a…
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Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Prioritizes Combating Drug Cartels in the Western Hemisphere
The President has approved a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that designates the dismantling of drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as a top priority for his administration. This document was released months after his administration published an updated National Security…
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Nowhere to Call Home
He used to be an ordinary clerk, and after losing his job, he lost his home and became homeless. During the day, he collects scrap for a hot meal; at night, the bridge cave is his only shelter. He once…
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When Storms Strike Working Families Lose Their Only Path To Recovery
Seventy percent of New Yorkers on recovery medications went without enough of them after Superstorm Sandy. That is not a statistic. That is a neighbor trying to hold down a shift at a warehouse, a parent fighting for custody, a…
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