With over 2,000,000 workers receiving poverty-level wages, the federal government is by far the largest employer of low paying jobs in the country. It exceeds McDonald's (600,000) and Walmart (900,000) combined.
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]]> According to the Pentagon, there were 26,000 sexual assaults in the military last year, a 27% increase from the year before. America cannot wait any longer -- it is time for Obama to go around Congress, take executive action, and address this.
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]]> Mark Carson was walking down the street and killed because he was gay. The next Mark Carson is out there right now, running out of time. We cannot, must not stop until our nation's laws treat all Americans equally.
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]]> Help protect asbestos victims’ rights by urging Congress to oppose legislation that threatens to delay and deny justice until asbestos victims die. Your action will make a difference!


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]]> Corporate-funded politicians in the Senate are threatening to shut down the National Labor Relations Board, the independent agency that protects workers’ rights, and let CEOs run amok. The nominations need to be confirmed now.


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]]> Now that we know a GOP congressional aide misleadingly edited -- intentionally or not -- Obama administration emails on the Benghazi attack, one wonders if he or she will face repercussions.
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]]> If passed, H.R. 525 will allow farmers in the U.S. to once again have the opportunity to grow this valuable agricultural crop.

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]]> By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, ...
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]]> One corner of Obamacare that hasn't gotten much attention is the fact that it will not require employers to cover spouses, which experts say could lead some employers to drop coverage for Americans' significant others.
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]]> Senator Max Baucus and Republican Representative Dave Camp, both chairmen of the powerful tax writing committees in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, launched a new website – its aim: to have YOU tell them what to do about tax reform
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]]> the US Senate finally voted to confirm David Medine as the first Chair of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), the government oversight body principally charged with protecting privacy and civil liberties in the United States.
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]]> might be attributable, in part, to the agency's failure to create clearer rules for political activity in the post-Citizens United electoral landscape, and it being inappropriately tasked with enforcing campaign finance law, tax law experts say.
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]]> Bills introduced in Nevada to allow machine guns on the Vegas strip, privatize public education, and thwart federal healthcare reform can be tied back to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a new report from ProgressNow Nevada
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]]> Parents are afraid of sending their children to school; students are worried about being hurt by guns on campus. Therefore, allowing guns on campus could not make campuses security; instead, it will have the opposite effect and lead to more campus gun vio
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]]> In the early morning hours of Saturday June 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and tresp
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]]> Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: Investigate Big Oil’s Influence on the Keystone XL Review.
Not only was the investigating firm part of the oil industry, but the state department tried to hide the connection.


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]]> Federal spending is a complicated beast but the government’s official site, USASpending.gov, is supposed to help sort through the trillions the government spends. Unfortunately, there are some important questions USASpending.gov just can’t answer.
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]]> These bills would fundamentally change the way the military handles rape cases and would be an enormous improvement over the current system. They would increase accountability and transparency by giving prosecutors and judges, not commanders, power over..
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]]> You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. Who profits in this booming business of keeping human beings in cages?
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]]> June 1st will mark the beginning of Bradley Manning’s fourth year in prison and the start of his trial. The June 1st Ft. Meade protest for Bradley Manning will be the largest action of our campaign!
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]]> We will not accept "interim" storage of high-level radioactive waste; we will not accept our roads and railways burdened with thousands of casks of lethal nuclear waste moving to a "temporary" unsuitable location for the convenience of the .. industry
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]]> … gravity of the allegations against the Obama IRS …scrutiny is certainly warranted… most of the lawmakers … had little … to say about equally troubling revelations about the Bush administration’s deployment of public resources against its opponents.
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]]> The war authorization that Congress passed after 9/11 will be needed for at least 10 to 20 more years, and can be used to put the United States military on the ground anywhere, from Syria to the Congo to Boston, military officials argued Thursday.
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]]> I suspect that Obama heartily approves of what the Justice Department did in the AP leak investigation. It's probably a fantasy to believe that either Holder or DOJ were off the reservation here.
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]]> Remember the Academy Award-winning film Zero Dark Thirty? Well, last week news broke that the CIA edited the film’s script to make sure that it didn’t portray the “enhanced interrogation” program in a way that would make the agency look bad.


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]]> We learned last week that the epidemic of sexual assault in the military is more pervasive than we even knew, and we knew it was bad. In the last two years, sexual assaults are up 30%, to 26,000 instances. The news also broke that the officer in charge...
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]]> On Friday, Rove's group American Crossroads released an ad attacking Clinton and accusing her of a national security "cover-up."Hillary Clinton falsely accused of a cover-up -- by Karl Rove? The Bush Administration's political fixer?
American Bridge put
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]]> With so much uncertainty about the future, we will rely more than ever on our Social Security benefits. That’s why now is the time to build upon the one retirement security system that we know we can count on.
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]]> Every Citizen of the World should educate themselves and realize that we have a responsibility to find solutions so that this repeating abuse that end in many deaths for profit can be stopped. The role of the USA in this abuse should be noted
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]]> The government reportedly seized call logs and records from more than 20 AP phone lines in three sites, including the main AP phone inside the House of Representatives press gallery. The seizure's apparent goal is to expose and prosecute confidential...
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]]> In a shocking new salvo in their war on workers, House Republicans have passed a bill that repeals mandatory overtime pay.

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]]> Conservatives have sought to use the horrific case to press for more restrictive abortion laws
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]]> His climate-change policy has been an abject failure, says Al Gore and just about everyone else. They’re wrong. Here’s why.
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]]> The idea of impeaching Obama is industrial-strength insane. Republicans will probably try anyway, predicts Michael Tomasky.
Never put the most extreme behavior past them. It is who they are, and it is what they do.
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]]> Special budget brief in partnership with the National Women's Law Center about the effect federal budget decisions have on women.
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]]> Early advocates of celebrating Mother's Day in the United States envisioned it as a day of peace, to honor and support mothers who had lost sons and husbands to the carnage of the Civil War.
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]]> In 2012, Elliott became the last county to vote Democratic -- not just in Kentucky, but among all predominantly white counties in the rural South.
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]]> This week the Senate is debating a bill that would weaken that environmental review process & make it easier for the Corps to do damage to rivers. Senators Tom Udall (NM) and Ben Cardin (MD) are trying to improve the bill. Help make sure they succeed by
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]]> Today, the White House is issuing a new Executive Order on Open Data -- one that is significantly different from the open data policies that have come before it -- reflecting Sunlight's persistent call for stronger public listings of agency data, &demo
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]]> Increasingly states are quashing the power of local governments--and thwarting innovation.
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]]> We, as mothers, have the absolute right to protect our children from harm. We have the right to know our children are safe from gun violence, from the moment they leave our arms in the morning until they return home later in the day.
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]]> Monsanto, the world's largest biotech corporation, has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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