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  • Citizenship for working families make for stronger communities

    Al Ekblad, Brian McGregor

    As you read this, the United States has 11 million aspiring citizens who rent or own homes, raise families, work hard, start businesses, pay taxes and do their fair share in thousands of cities and towns across our country. That sounds great, until you realize they live here in second-class status. With the Senate Judiciary Committee opening debate last week on the immigration bill from the bi-partisan "Gang of Eight," we're finally moving toward solving this crisis. Immigrants founded this nation and have played a vital...

  • If you care about fairness, you should care about unions

    Al Ekblad

    Think the war against workers is only about union members? Think again. One of the story lines that the anti-worker, corporate agenda is trying to sell is the idea that unions did a lot of good a long time ago but they are no longer needed because now we have laws. Well across this nation, anti-worker forces are not only trying to destroy collective bargaining rights, they have launched an all-out assault on the laws that protect all workers and their children. As a result, the political climate is worse now for working...