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Americans Ask Congress: "Where Are The Jobs?"

With such momentous economic issues facing our country, you'd think members of Congress would be more willing than ever to make themselves available to hear the concerns and feedback of the constituents who hired them, wouldn't you? Not so. Check out our coverage and reflections on recent town hall events and protests happening all across the country in states including IL, PA, WV, OH, MN, CA, WA and TX.

We pay our fair share, so should CEO's and their corporations

Tilly Gitchuway, a Minneapolis Public Schools food service worker and a member of SEIU Local 284, has a solution for the $5 billion budget deficit in Minnesota: make the richest two percent of Minnesotans pay their fair share. Tilly joined more than 1,000 others at the People's Rally for a Fair Minnesota at the state Capitol on Saturday, calling for legislators to implement Governor Mark Dayton's plan for tax fairness.

Obama's "planes, trains and automobiles" proposal to rebuild America

Before a crowd of 10,000 union members and their families in Milwaukee this Labor Day, President Obama rolled out a new and ambitious $50 billion transportation proposal to rebuild, improve and modernize America's roads, rails and runways and put Americans back to work. The President also dropped his usual talk of bipartisanship and slammed the GOP for consistently being 'the party of no.'