Ypsilanti, Mich. – Gas prices have reached $4 per gallon here and for many communities across the country, fueling resentment at the Bush administration who most people view as at fault for the rise in prices.

An Atlanta realtor coordinating the effort to find replacement housing for some 2,000 families in public housing communities about to be evicted by Atlanta Housing Authority sent a message to realtors stating AHA only has 700 voucher-leasing units identified for some 2,000 families.

In an historic shift, Latino voters in Florida who align themselves with the Democratic Party outnumber those who identify as Republicans, according to Florida Secretary of State data released last week.

Two hundred protesters from churches, unions and community groups marched and picketed outside the office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown San Francisco on May 5, Cinco de Mayo.

In a rare admission of intent, a real estate investor in the Beltline area, James Orr, wrote on his blog about how realtors should invest in rental properties in the area, accept vouchers for displaced public housing residents, and then raise rents as property values skyrocket around the Beltline.

Nothing seems to work right for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in her attempts to return to the White House. Senator Barack Obama, despite inflated controversies continued his glide to the Democratic nomination with a landslide victory and a marginal defeat in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, respectively.

According to Sarah Churchwell, researcher of social issues and British literary critic, segregation of women still exists in the US in the form of a doctrine "of separate but equal" rights, while the racial problem is only class-oriented.

A horror that millions of people saw on television occurred earlier this month. A horse that ran second in the Kentucky Derby, whipped by his jockey, collapsed and died after he crossed the finish line.

It's hardly controversial to suggest that many in the corporate media have a fondness for presumptive GOP White House candidate John McCain.

A poll conducted in the key battleground state of Florida shows Republican presidential nominee John McCain winning no more than 44% of the vote against either Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton.

In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes.

NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Don't expect any labor union to endorse John McCain for president in the general election. The wounds from the Bush-Cheney Administration are just too deep. But, their reasons aren't because of social justice issues that once pervaded the labor movement, but on bread-and-butter issues that have dominated unions the past five decades.

If you don't support a gas tax holiday as the solution to high energy costs and economic woes then you're "out of touch" with ordinary working people, Hillary Clinton and John McCain recently claimed.

ATLANTA – A diverse coalition of transit riders, employees, and other advocates released a new report Tuesday, April 29, 2008, outlining a vision for regional transit in Atlanta from the perspective of riders who depend on transit.

During his recent visit to the U.S., Pope Benedict's crusade against child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy garnered much approving ink.

Caught up in a series of scandals that erased what little credibility it had on the Cuba issue, the Bush administration, which until now trusted that its Cuban-American mercenaries would succeed in destabilizing the country, has placed its hopes in the none-too-clean hands of an astute Czech, a fitting student of its spy services.

A report by a private foundation released Apr. 29 revealed that rising family health insurance premiums have eaten into more than half of what little income gains working households have seen in recent years. Between 2001 and 2005, the cost of the portion of family health insurance premiums paid for by workers who get their insurance through their job has risen 30 percent, while their incomes on average have grown only 3 percent.

You know environmental consciousness has really taken hold when couples start to worry about whether their weddings will be green enough. But more and more people who care deeply about the planet view getting married as a chance to show off their values.