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Health Insurance Reform is Better than the Status Quo

As an advocate for single payer health care (also known as Medicare for all), I’ve struggled as the reforms I’d supported got diluted and distorted.
Rather than rant more about that, I’ll take this opportunity to note that some reform is better than taking no action at all to repair a broken system. Right [...]

Trumka, Shuler Seek to Succeed Sweeney in Historic Move for AFL-CIO

Richard Trumka and Liz Shuler are expected to announce  their candidacy for the top posts of  President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO on Thursday, July 9, 2009. If the Richard Trumka-Liz Shuler ticket gets the nod from AFL-CIO leaders, it will result in only the second female serving in this top leadership role in the 56-union federation’s history. The first, Barbara [...]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court

Here’s a topic that intersects many of my interests: Latino, diversity, women, worker’s rights, choice, equal representation under the law, and baseball! Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor!