Big business greed "holds Illinois hostage"
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group made $951 million in profits on $3 billion in income in 2010. But that's not enough, they are threatening to move out of Illinois unless they get a tax break.
Ending wars, creating jobs, top mayors' agenda
More than a dozen mayors are sponsoring a resolution to end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and use the savings to pay for job-creating programs in the nation's cities.
Firefighters, nurses, farmers turn up heat in Walkerville
Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold led 1,000 firefighters, nurses, farmers and a motorcade of taxi cabs and an antique fire engine, in a demonstration that encircled Capitol Square.
"Walkerville" tent city grows in Wisconsin
Like the workers who built "Hooverville" tent cities in the Depression of the 1920s and '30s, protestors are dramatizing their opposition to Republicans' economic policies.
Michigan’s new budget increases pain and misery
Republicans claim the budget, which awaits the governor's signature, is groundbreaking. Backbreaking would be more apt.
GOP's privatization of Social Security would hurt veterans
Almost 800,000 veterans receive Social Security disability benefits, with an additional 2 million or more spouses and children eligible as well.
Top labor leader: The fight is about morals
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is redefining workers' battle with the radical right as a moral struggle, saying it involves the nation's future.
Supreme Court rules Calif. must reduce inmates
After a long court battle, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, on May 23 that California must lower its prison population by tens of thousands in the next two years, so the state can provide decent health care for those who remain.
Baltimore residents push for restoration of funding for youth jobs
Scores of citizens weighed in on Baltimore's preliminary fiscal year 2012 budget before members of the City Council.
Gov. Brown presents new Calif. budget
Calling the economy "not as good as it's been, but definitely on the mend," California Governor Jerry Brown released a revised budget proposal.
