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Jerry Brown spent the better part of an hour in the noonday sun at a rally of family members of murder victims, organized by California's prison officers' union. Governor Brown, I can't tell you enough how much it means to have you here," Mike Jimenez, the Correctional Peace Officers Association president, said in his remarks.
Queen Freelove, who runs a day-care center in her New Haven home for low-income parents covered by state subsidies, says she has gone months without getting paid by the state. Marcia Federico, another Elm City resident with a home-based day care, has a degree in early childhood education from the University of California in Los Angeles and 23 years of experience, but she can't afford health insurance.
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent war on terror, the issue of how to bring captured enemy combatants to justice continues to fester. Some argue in favor of military tribunals. Others say the U.S. court system is capable of handling trials of suspected terrorists.
Most of the national and local leaders of unions that represent millions of federal and postal workers - from the Internal Revenue Service to the Pentagon - are Democrats. But you probably knew that. Many of these leaders go out of their way to criticize national- level Republican politicians, although when Democrats threaten their flocks they adopt a see-no-evil tactic.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson pushed her proposal to cap the state's sales tax on gasoline and courted union votes Thursday in the Evansville area. It was part of a tour of Southwestern Indiana that included a stop in Terre Haute and a speech at a Democratic Party dinner in Vincennes.
According to Leuchtenburg, the 1920s were a failure, and the worst failure was . In 1932 Hoover signed the Norris-LaGuardia Act, giving labor unions immunity from antitrust laws, private lawsuits for damages, and injunctions from federal courts, which enabled union bosses to push aggressively for monopoly bargaining power and forced dues.
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