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  1. Something We Can All Get Behind: Subsidized Jobs In this June 23, 2014 photo, job seekers and recruiters meet during a job fair in Philadelphia. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    8 Aug 2014 … A subsidized jobs program that created 20,000 jobs around the Commonwealth shows that such initiatives can be a win both for those struggling for work and for employers. Continue reading
  2. Building Democracy in ‘Trump Country’ Appalshop program participants filming. (Photo by Shawn Poynter Photography)
    3 Mar 2017 … A lot of people don’t believe me when I tell them Letcher County, Kentucky, is one of the most open-minded places I’ve ever lived. I might not have believed it either, before I moved here a year ago. I’ve spent Continue reading
  3. After Labor Day, Dig In for the Fight Ahead McDonald's workers and supporters rally outside a McDonald's, Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Chicago. Fast-food workers calling for $15 an hour are picking up some more allies Wednesday. Airport workers, home care workers, Walmart workers and adjunct professors are among those set to join in the fight for $15 protests across the country, in what organizers are calling the biggest ever mobilization of workers in the U.S. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    9 Sep 2015 … As we take stock after Labor Day, there’s much that we have accomplished, much to be grateful for, and yet so much work remains if we are to create a path to economic stability for all of us. Continue reading
  4. Whose Land? Aerial view of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, LOC
    7 Jul 2020 … Trump sets himself up as a defender of American history and culture against a “new far-left fascism” trying to destroy America. Continue reading
  5. Republican ‘Alternative’ to Obamacare Really No Alternative at All Senator Orrin Hatch one of the three authors of Republican's Patient CARE Act . (Photo: Be the Change, Inc./flickr CC 2.0)
    2 Feb 2015 … Republicans' Patient CARE Act would eliminate parts of the law that protect Americans from insurance companies. Continue reading
  6. Michelle Alexander and Paul Butler Talking About ‘Chokehold: Policing Black Men’
    10 Oct 2017 … Earlier this month at the Brooklyn Museum, scholar and MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler joined Michelle Alexander, civil rights lawyer and author of The New Jim Crow, for a conversation about his latest book, Chokehold: Policing Black Men. As a Continue reading
  7. Is the Pope Getting on Board with “Nuns on the Bus”? In this photo provided Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis has his picture taken inside St. Peter's Basilica with youths from the Italian Diocese of Piacenza and Bobbio who came to Rome for a pilgrimage, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.
    9 Sep 2013 … Pope Francis's recent interview was interpreted by many as a "new direction" for the Catholic church and could have significant consequences for American political debates. Continue reading
  8. Rep. Henry Waxman on Government Waste; 2008 Campaign Endorsements Capitol Hill by night, August 11, 2012. (Image: Flickr/ Paul Arps)
    2 Feb 2008 … The JOURNAL examines abuse of power and waste being exposed by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Also, an update on 2008 campaign endorsements. Continue reading
  9. ‘For America’s Sake’, December 12, 2006 House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi celebrates with fellow Democrats at an election-night rally in Washington. November 2006. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
    12 Dec 2006 … Bill Moyers delivered these remarks in New York City on December 12, 2006 to the New Democracy Project. Continue reading
  10. How to Spot Income Inequality From Space? Count the Trees 9th Ward, New Orleans
    6 Jun 2012 … The poet Joyce Kilmer once wrote: “I think that I shall never see. A poem lovely as a tree.” Trees in urban settings are more than just lovely, they actually clean the air, reduce noise pollution, reduce the need for Continue reading