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Backers of the movement for higher pay point to studies saying that the average age of fast-food workers is 29 and that more than one-fourth are parents raising children. Simon Rojas, who earns $8.07 an hour working at a McDonald’s in South Central Los Angeles, said he would join Thursday’s one-day strike. “It’s very difficult to live off $8.07 an hour,” said Mr. Rojas, 23, noting that he is often assigned just 20 or 25 hours of work a week. “I have to live with my parents. I would like to be able to afford a car and an apartment.”...

CLIFTON (AP) - Authorities in Mesa County are working to clean up an acid spill early this morning in Clifton. Assistant fire chief Greg Martin says two containers carrying hundreds of gallons of acid belonging to the Halliburton Company fell off a truck on Colorado 141 about a mile-and-a-half south of Interstate 70

The AFL-CIO hierarchy's recent decision to charge its secretary-treasurer, former United Mine Workers (UMW) President Richard Trumka, with "turning around" the three-and-a-half-month-old California supermarket strike is an ominous development.

In an effort to improve its corporate reputation, adware company Gator has launched a legal offensive to divorce its name from the hated term "spyware"--and so far its strategy is paying off. In response to a libel lawsuit, an antispyware company has settled with Gator and pulled Web pages critical of the company, its practices and its software. And other spyware foes are getting the message. "There is this feeling out there that they won the lawsuit, and people are starting to get scared," said one employee of a spyware-removal company, who asked not to be named. "We haven't been...

Sort by Total View Percentages / Icons Rank Organization Name Total 1989-2004 Cycles 2002 Cycle Dems Repubs Dems Repubs 25 AFL-CIO $13,846,242 94% 5% 97% 2% 52 AFLAC Inc $9,280,997 35% 63% 43% 56% 54 Air Line Pilots Assn $9,235,547 82% 17% 83% 15% 87 American Academy of Ophthalmology $6,271,936 44% 52% 55% 44% 88 American Airlines $6,267,619 44% 55% 48% 51% 26 American Bankers Assn $12,992,274 34% 63% 41% 57% 99 American Council of Life Insurers $6,065,360 24% 75% 34% 65% 41 American Dental Assn $10,249,456 39% 59% 46% 53% 14 American Federation of Teachers $18,555,399 98% 0% 98%...