EMPLOYMENT POLITICS-For more than fifty years, Peter Cove, (photo above with colleague and wife Lee Bowes) the founder of America Works, has dedicated himself to finding jobs for welfare recipients, ex-offenders and other low-income Americans.
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400 Years After Slavery’s Start, No More Band-Aids
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Red States Cut Worker Pay by $1.5 Billion
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