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Legislators call on American Crystal Sugar to resume negotiations

By | 11.03.11 | 3:01 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

One day after 90 percent of union workers rejected the most recent contract offer by American Crystal Sugar, members of the region’s congressional delegations are calling for both parties to return to the bargaining table.

Income Gap Yawns to Widest-Ever Level in 2009

By | 09.28.10 | 12:31 pm

The income gap — the disparity in earnings between the wealthiest and poorest Americans — increased to the highest recorded level in 2009, according to the Census Bureau. The Associated Press reports on data from the 2009 American Community Survey released earlier today:

All Hands in the Corporate Cookie Jar

By | 09.08.09 | 5:05 pm

Brenda Wright, Director of Democracy Program at Demos, has posted some insights at the American Constitution Society’s blog on the big campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, to be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow. Here’s her take:

Overruling those cases would mean that corporate

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