David Obringer
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Share the Wealth

There is a growing awareness that wealth inequality is directly affecting everyman. All politicians recite the pledge to help the middle class, republicans

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After Paycheck Taxes

I am a public employee. And what is worse, I work at a university. Mine is a public university sucking the lifeblood out

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Mr. Trump and the Super-Person Tax Rate

Working people who felt forgotten or ignored by the government voted for a change. What used to be a fairly solid voting block

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Action Alerts Activism

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Faculty Ready to Strike

The strike date is October 19. It has been 430 days without a contract (as of 10/12/16). Some negotiations will take place beginning

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Tinkering with Taxes

The recent debacle Apple has found itself in brings attention to how companies skip from country to country to avoid taxes. In a

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Should Right to Work Laws be Legal?

If ever a law was mislabeled, it is the Right to Work legislation. This anti-union contagion has spread through state legislatures like an

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Global Affairs Articles Labor History

French Workers Fight to Maintain 35-Hour Work Week

French workers are fighting to maintain their 35 hour work week. Adopted in February of 2000, as part of the platform of France’s

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Is It Time for a Six-Hour Work Day?

A 2014 Gallup poll shows Americans work an average of 47 hours per week. But should the work week be 30 hours? And

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