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• April 26, 2013 | Workers Memorial Day thoughts

• April 18, 2013 | Fox News wannabe: Washington Post disses France

• April 17, 2013 | Gang of Eight bill delivers on bold, broad legalization of undocumented workers

• April 16, 2013 | The Working Families Flexibility Act is a fraud

• March 26, 2013 | Striking J-1 students want justice from McDonald’s and U.S. State Department

• March 7, 2013 | In support of the Fair Minimum Wage Act

• March 4, 2013 | For 20-somethings, the no-limits, no-pay job

• Feb. 22, 2013 | Problems in the high tech labor market

• Feb. 21, 2013 | The PhD bust

• Feb. 20, 2013 | Close to slavery

• Feb. 13, 2013 | Immigration reform and the minimum wage

• Jan. 30, 2013 | Guestworker expansions don’t belong in comprehensive immigration reform

• Jan. 16, 2013 | AARP comes out against COLA cut

• Jan. 11, 2013 | Don’t be fooled by Apple’s PR: Workers strike against sweatshop conditions

• Jan. 10, 2013 | Unpaid internships: Denying opportunities and exploiting young workers

• Jan. 9, 2013 | Michigan’s ‘right-to-work-for-less’ legislation: Bad for workers, undemocratic, fundamentally immoral

• Jan. 9, 2013 | Michelle Rhee gets a failing grade on her report card

• Dec. 21, 2012 | Fiscal fiasco: The first to be hurt will be the unemployed

• Dec. 18, 2012 | Social Security has no place in ‘fiscal cliff’ negotiations

• Dec. 14, 2012 | Ease of doing business in U.S. and record corporate profits contradict Chamber’s regulatory complaints

• Dec. 13, 2012 | Right-to-work-for-less passes in Michigan

• Dec. 5, 2012 | Want jobs? Kill the Bush tax cuts and extend Emergency Unemployment Compensation

• Dec. 5, 2012 | Fixing a problem that doesn’t exist: Special interest STEM immigration bills are not needed

• Nov. 26, 2012 | WaPo ignores facts on Social Security COLA

• Nov. 21, 2012 | Immigration reform and indentured guest workers don’t go together

• Nov. 20, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh and other unbalanced observers blame ‘the union’

• Nov. 7, 2012 | Don’t let the lame duck session undercut necessary financial oversight

• Nov. 2, 2012 | Center for Immigration Studies goes political on jobs numbers

• Oct. 23, 2012 | Anti-regulatory malarkey

• Oct. 22, 2012 | House Republicans block remedy for China’s job-killing currency intervention

• Oct. 18, 2012 | Fighting waste and abuse in defense contractor pay

• Oct. 18, 2012 | Celebrate the Clean Water Act

• Oct. 16, 2012 | Only a minority of Americans think there is too much regulation

• Oct. 12, 2012 | Remembering Paul Wellstone

• Oct. 11, 2012 | Walmart strikes dramatize third-world inequities

• Sept. 27, 2012 | Pension report misses obvious causes of underfunding

• Sept. 26, 2012 | Rare conservative-progressive agreement: Corporate capture of the government is a bad thing

• Sept. 25, 2012 | Recent federal regulation coincides with manufacturing employment gains

• Sept. 25, 2012 | Retirement proposals a big step forward

• Sept. 17, 2012 | Obama tackles illegal Chinese auto parts subsidies

• Sept. 13, 2012 | Chicago’s schools and the polite Pinkertons of educational reform

• Sept. 7, 2012 | Card check survives as way to choose a union

• Aug. 30, 2012 | Congress: Put emergency unemployment compensation in the continuing resolution

• Aug. 28, 2012 | Key goals of 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom are still unmet

• Aug. 24, 2012 | Apple in China: Failing to make good on its commitment?

• Aug. 23, 2012 | Bad economics leads to bad H-2B guest worker legislation

• Aug. 22, 2012 | MAPI report on regulation is latest example of business-sponsored junk science

• Aug. 14, 2012 | Parade Magazine decries poor state of public school facilities

• June 29, 2012 | Combating foreign currency manipulation would boost manufacturing and U.S. jobs

• June 21, 2012 | Supreme Court contorts itself to deny overtime protection to 90,000 pharmaceutical employees

• June 19, 2012 | NLRB uses new tool to help us understand our rights

• June 15, 2012 | Another suicide at Apple’s key supplier in China

• June 14, 2012 | Congress should fix Postal Service pension problem it created

• June 1, 2012 | Center for Public Integrity makes a strong case for more regulation and better enforcement

• June 1, 2012 | New York Times pension reporter ignores inconvenient truths

• May 29, 2012 | How’s that immigrant-bashing thing workin’ for ya?

• May 24, 2012 | Management—bad management—crippled the auto industry’s Big Three, not the UAW

• May 24, 2012 | Alan Simpson isn’t ‘saving Social Security’

• May 16, 2012 | Bernard ‘B’ Rapoport remembered

• May 10, 2012 | Organized business’s knee-jerk opposition to paid sick days legislation

• April 25, 2012 | Attempt to block labor election modernization goes down in flames

• April 20, 2012 | The fashion industry’s illegal unpaid internships

• April 18, 2012 | Apple’s iPhone profits dwarf its labor costs

• April 11, 2012 | Thank God for trial lawyers

• April 9, 2012 | Social Security privatizer Pozen attacks public employee pensions

• April 6, 2012 | Washington Post misdiagnoses causes of retirement insecurity

• April 4, 2012 | Apple’s employees in China don’t work 70 hours a week because they want to

• April 3, 2012 | Fair Labor Association report leaves big questions about change at Apple/Foxconn

• March 29, 2012 | Harkin bill would revive the American Dream

• March 2, 2012 | Pushing back against illegal unpaid internships

• Feb. 24, 2012 | Post editorial criticizes Md. schools, public pensions, school boards, teacher unions, and Gov. O’Malley — but misses all targets

• Feb. 17, 2012 | Whitewashing the Apple

• Feb. 15, 2012 | Bad Apple labor practices: Promises have been made before

• Feb. 14, 2012 | Labor Department tackles guest worker problems

• Feb. 9, 2012 | Auto industry roars back, everyone cheers (except anti-government conservatives)

• Feb. 7, 2012 | Unpaid internships: A scourge on the labor market

• Feb. 3, 2012 | Another win for the 1%: ‘Right to work’ signed into law in Indiana

• Jan. 31, 2012 | It’s not time to cut back on extended unemployment insurance

• Jan. 12, 2012 | Income inequality is a policy choice

• Jan. 11, 2012 | The NLRB protects the right of non-union employees to fair pay

• Jan. 5, 2012 | Unpaid internships hurt mobility

• Dec. 22, 2011 | Some ugly views about the unemployed among congressional Republicans

• Dec. 21, 2011 | House vote will hurt millions of unemployed workers

• Dec. 14, 2011 | Snapshot: Unemployment insurance benefits increase job-search activities

• Dec. 7, 2011 | President Obama got it right; Fox news gets it wrong

• Nov. 18, 2011 | Labor-HHS spending bill would make terrible changes in labor law and regulation

• Nov. 15, 2011 | New evidence that the chained CPI is unfair to seniors

• Nov. 9, 2011 | Ohio rejects assault on union rights and wages

• Nov. 1, 2011 | The chained CPI: Budget treachery

• Oct. 31, 2011 | New book by Ray Marshall: Value-Added Immigration

• Oct. 17, 2011 | Baby steps toward fixing our schools

• Sept. 15, 2011 | Contrary to misinformation campaign, NLRB Boeing ruling consistent with long-established labor law

• Sept. 12, 2011 | Boeing and House Republicans abuse their power

• Sept. 9, 2011 | The long and winding road to the American Jobs Act

• Sept. 8, 2011 | Obama’s American Jobs Act is mostly on the mark

• Sept. 7, 2011 | Georgia Works doesn’t work

• Sept. 7, 2011 | Fixing schools, creating jobs