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The wages of poverty
This week brought some good news for working people – for a change. California, the biggest state in the nation by population is on the verge of increasing the minimum wage to $9 an…
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Pope Francis: Church too “obsessed” with abortion, birth control and gay marriage
The pope’s statement is a sharp departure from many of the other leaders in the Church, who have recently been pressuring him to take a stronger stance on those issues.
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‘Carcassage’ and letting bygones be bygones
The "Carcassage" appears to be at an end. At least in its "pure state," the Internet's social networks, where only a few Cubans coexist, full of messages of every kind about the…
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Can’t live on this minimum wage
Those who cling to the Republican notion that raising wages will in the long run damage the economy spread suspicious statistics and studies that deny the reality we see all around us…
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Brazil backs out of state visit over NSA spying
Brazil took the extraordinary step Tuesday of putting off a state visit by President Dilma Rousseff over allegations of U.S. spying.
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Typical American family makes less than it did in 1989
The most depressing fact about the economy is not the fact that household incomes were basically flat in 2012. It wasn't even the fact that 15 percent of the U.S. population was living…
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Cuba, U.S. discuss re-establishment of direct mail service in new round of talks in Havana
U.S. and Cuban representatives met in Havana on Monday for renewed talks on re-establishing direct mail service, 50 years after it was severed.
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Miami public radio station nixes Cuban Five book interview
Canadian Professor Stephen Kimber, currently on an East Coast tour with his new book, "What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five", has revealed that WLRN, an NPR…
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Washington must show proof of payments in trial of The Five
The U.S. State Department in October will release documents that could demonstrate the government's involvement in a press campaign prejudicial to five Cuban security agents during the…
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Cuban bishops publish pastoral letter
On Sunday Sept. 15, at all Catholic churches on the island, the faithful received one copy per family of the pastoral letter titled "Hope Does Not Defraud." It is signed by the 13…
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