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Trump Reviewing Rule That Would Allow Drug Testing for Unemployment Benefits
Such screenings would amount to demeaning and unconstitutional invasions of privacy.
Groundbreaking Reforms Could Finally Grant Protections to Farmworkers
A landmark court ruling and a new labor law may finally grant New York farmworkers the protections they need.
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What American Taxpayers Should Really Be Outraged About
Helping Americans pick themselves up and get back on their feet is more important than forking over billions to corporations that don't need it.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Delays Vote on Unemployment Benefits, and More
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had to delay a crucial vote on unemployment benefits so that Republican lawmakers could finalize their list of demands, and more.
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Where Is the Democrats’ Outrage?
Eugene Robinson: Shame on Republicans for blocking long-term unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans. And shame on Democrats for letting them.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Won’t Approve Extension of Unemployment Benefits Without Concessions, and More
Senate Democrats have already scheduled a test vote to restore unemployment insurance, but Republicans say they won't approve an extension without something in return, and more.
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A Moral and Economic Imperative to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Federal unemployment assistance for 1.3 million people who have been unemployed longer than 26 weeks expired last Saturday, after Republicans blocked efforts to extend them.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 1.3 Million People Have Lost Their Unemployment Benefits, and More
One point three million people have lost their unemployment benefits, and more.
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William Rivers Pitt | Laney’s Christmas
William Rivers Pitt: "Despite the grotesque perversion of simple morality that has so gruesomely twisted the fabric of life in America, we will someday prevail, and find a better …