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Picking Up the Pieces: Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Still Making it in America
Beth Macy, The Roanoke Times | Photo by Jared Soares, Equal Voice News
GALAX, Va. — John D. Bassett III was winding along the dusty roads of northern China on a three-day fact-finding mission. It was 2001, and the third-generation furniture-maker was gathering ammo for an epic battle to keep his factory churning. If he [...]
Wage War: Employers Stealing Millions from US Workers
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
February 8, 2012
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MIAMI – Workers nationwide are losing millions of dollars each week to wage theft as their employers, some unscrupulous, others scrambling to keep their businesses afloat, fail to pay the mandated minimum wage or overtime wages, or, in some cases, don’t pay their employees at all. Wage theft is [...]
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Millions of Families Three Months Away from Poverty
Susannah Nesmith | Special to Equal Voice News
February 1, 2012
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MIAMI ‒ When it’s time for bed, 10-year-old Miguel Abreu retrieves a deflated air mattress wedged between a bookcase and the wall in his aunt’s tiny apartment in Florida City, south of Miami. He quietly unfolds it in the middle of the dining/living room and hooks up [...]
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Obama Plans Change in Immigration Rule on Waivers
Amy Taxin | Associated Press
January 6, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration proposed a rule change Friday to reduce the time that undocumented immigrant spouses and children are separated from their American relatives while they try to gain legal status in the United States. Currently, many undocumented immigrants must leave the country before they can ask [...]
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Calif. Schools Lead the Way Preparing Next Generation of Workers: Latinos
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
December 22, 2011
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In 2011, for the first time, more Latino students than white students applied for admission to California State University’s 23 campuses. The numbers reflect not only the state’s growing Latino population, but also the impact of early education programs that are paying off with more Latinos graduating from high [...]
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SF Becomes First US City to Top $10 Minimum Wage
Beth Duff-Brown | Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — David Frias works two
December 13, 2011
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ias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America. Come New Year’s Day, he’ll have a few more coins in his pocket as San Francisco makes history by becoming the first city in the nation to scale [...]
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Rural Residents Fight Back to Save Local Post Offices
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
December 7, 2011
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FOX, Ark. – If the U.S. Postal Service ever thought it could simply slip into hundreds of rural communities across the country and quietly close their post offices without a fight, it now knows differently. In any town, having almost 200 people show up for a community meeting would [...]
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School Zero Tolerance Kills Dreams, Hurts the Economy
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
November 23, 2011
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At a time when competition for jobs is fierce and even entry-level positions require a high school or college degree, anyone without a high school diploma need not apply. Yet, each year, more than a million students in the United States leave high school without graduating. Once assumed to [...]
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Real Cost of Teacher Layoffs is Our Future
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News
October 24, 2011
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By now, the pattern is impossible to ignore: More than 30,000 teachers in California received layoff warnings last spring; another 300 prepared for unemployment in Milwaukee; in Chicago, 1,000 more were looking for work, and by the time school started in September some 60,000 teachers across the country had [...]
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ARKANSAS – On a recent morning, a small crowd gathered in the freshly swept parking lot of the Lambrook, Ark., post office, a simple brick building with white trim. Word had spread quickly through the rural community of fewer than 100 residents that a meeting was being called that [...]
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