“By making race and family heritage a part of the campaign, Senator Gardenhire owes the people of District 10 a full explanation of his family’s slave-trading past,” says Muhammad.
UMWA’s Smith stresses the importance of passing the legislation soon. “Failure to pass this bill this year will put the lives of some 16,000 retired miners, their dependents and widows at immediate risk, as they will lose their health care at the end of December. About 6,500 more will be at risk of losing their health care in 2017.”
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“We call it the curb effect,” he says. “Just like the [ramp at the] curb also makes it easier for [pedestrians with] a piece of luggage or a stroller. It ends up helping everyone.”
The toughest part of being Payday’s Senior Labor Reporter is attempting to summarize Payday Folk Labor Ombudsman J.P. Wright’s Folk Labor Desk. I tried for several hours to come up with witty description of JP’s folk labor desk about his son’ Jonah’s 14th birthday and his 20th wedding anniversary to his wife Donna Brown and failed.
“We never stopped from last year,” said Paul Schaffer, who was the lead organizer on the campaign. “Our volunteer organizing committee kept fighting and kept going on strong.”
