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Groups File Clean Water Concerns With Kentucky Court
Environmental and community groups concerned about water quality in Kentucky rivers are asking a court to throw out an order between the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and Frasure Creek Mining, saying they have a due process right to be part of the proceedings. Appalachian Voices of North Carolina, Waterkeeper Alliance of New York, [...] 
Illinois state Attorney General Lisa Madigan has joined the call for the federal government to end negotiations with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) regarding a plan to build a prison in the city of Joliet. Community and religious groups, as well as members of the state’s Congressional delegation, are voicing strong concern that [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An analysis by the Social Security Administration says a bipartisan immigration bill pending in the Senate would boost the retirement program’s trust fund by adding millions of taxpayers to the economy. The finding comes in a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who requested the analysis, from Stephen C. Gross, chief actuary [...]
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Asian American and Pacific Islander community groups are encouraging registered voters in Los Angeles to use their electoral voice on May 21 and cast ballots in the races for mayor, city attorney, city controller and members of the City Council. To help keep voters informed in the nation’s second most populous city, the Asian Pacific [...]
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After Sept. 11, 2001, Pramila Jayapal launched what is now OneAmerica to address hate crimes and discrimination aimed at Muslims, Arabs and South Asians. Today, the group is the largest immigrant advocacy organization in Washington state – and Jayapal continues her social justice work. Catherine Eusebio, a social justice fellow at Asian American/Pacific Islanders [...]
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Chicago-area policymakers should speed up the prosecution of perpetrators of “every form of sexual violence” – particularly when it comes to cases involving Latinas – and service providers should hire more bilingual professionals, a community organization is recommending in a new report. Mujeres Latinas en Acción, which works with Latinas, released its report on [...]
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The conversations covered serious topics: Violence, racism, criminal justice and poverty. But participants at this past weekend’s Southern Movement Assembly in Jacksonville, Fla. believe these topics need to be addressed directly and constructively for community progress to take place. More than 300 community organizers, teachers, young people and spiritual leaders from 40 groups met [...]
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Florida’s requirements that people filing an unemployment insurance claim must submit their applications via the Internet and take an online skills test violates federal civil rights and anti-discrimination laws, the U.S. Labor Department has found. Florida officials said they would enter into negotiations to comply with the ruling and work to make unemployment insurance accessible [...]
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A more broad-based economy in Eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia is needed following news that coal production in the eastern portion of the state has dropped to its lowest level since 1965 and 4,000 regional jobs in the industry disappeared last year, a group said last month. Citing state of Kentucky and federal statistics, [...]
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The battle for unemployment benefits for contract school workers spilled into Atlanta streets Saturday, as about 250 people called for full disbursement of denied money from the Georgia state government and no similar withholding in the future. The contract workers are owed about $300 to $3,700 per person in benefits for scheduled school holidays [...]
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