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  White House awakes to 'national crisis'

  POLITICO - By Edward-Isaac Dovere

  For President Barack Obama and Congress, one thing was clear amid the smoke in Baltimore: A task force didn’t solve the problem. There weren’t a lot of firm recommendations from the 11 people whom Obama appointed after last year’s uproar in Ferguson, Missouri, to give him an interim report on 21st …

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  Hundreds of fast-food protesters arrested while striking against low wages

  The Guardian - Dominic Rushe

  Protesters in more than 100 US cities conduct sit-ins and marches outside restaurants calling for a $15 minimum wage

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  ‎Working Stiff

  Apple Inc. - Judy Melinek & T.J. Mitchell

  Publisher Description “Fun…and full of smart science. Fans of CSI—the real kind—will want to read it” (The Washington Post): A young forensic pathologist’s “rookie season” as a NYC medical examiner, and the hair-raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being. Just two months before the …

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  Senegal children face modern-day slavery

  Al Jazeera - Tamba Jean-Matthew III

  An estimated 50,000 children forced hundreds kilometres away by their parents, and end up begging on the Dakar streets. Dakar, Senegal – Like thousands of child beggars in Senegal, Abdou Kane, four, is always barefoot and carrying a bowl and clothes that he wears for weeks – even months – without …

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  Sep 2, 2014
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  Labour suspends four councillors who 'let down' Rotherham

  The Telegraph

  Ed Miliband has suspended four current and former councillors in Rotherham in the wake of a scathing report into child sexual abuse in the town. Labour yesterday suspended councillors Gwendoline Russell and Shaukat Ali, as the council's former leader Roger Stone and ex-deputy leader Jahangir Akhtar, …