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In short, it is just too profitable to give up.

Industry groups vow to expose union-backed worker centers. House Republicans are beginning to scrutinize the worker centers as well.

Death from Above, tar sands, political class, super rich, Occupy, Troy Davis

Religious conservatives in Texas are fighting to infuse textbooks with their agenda—and it won't just affect public school students in the Lone Star State.

"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules," Francis says. "Ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all." In general, he seems to suggest he wants the church to come off as less judgmental and more pastoral, though without becoming morally "lax."

It's not unusual for politicians to disagree; one would hope that journalism might intervene on the side of the facts.

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A hard look at the campaign by retail and fast-food workers to earn a living wage.

In the picking of the strawberry crops - many workers are needed and in the name of immigration reform the growers are seeing their dream - a huge cheap source of labor. Congress is debating bills that would expand the number of recruited workers many times over, possibly even reaching the 500,000 worker peak of the bracero program in the mid-1950s.

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