Blue-collar Americans say trade is killing them

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Blue-collar Americans say trade is killing them SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Maurice King worked for Joerns Healthcare, a medical-furniture manufacturer, for nearly 43 years. Until suddenly one day, he didn’t. Joerns closed its plant in Stevens Point, Wis., in 2012 after years of gradually outsourcing work to China. It let go 175 workers. Now the 62-year-old former local steelworkers union president works a…

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McConnell: NRA Must Approve New Supreme Court Justice (VIDEO)

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McConnell: NRA Must Approve New Supreme Court Justice (VIDEO) After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in February, President Obama promised to fulfill his constitutional duty of appointing a new justice. Republicans in Congress, though, said they’d stop any such move. Of course, they listed several bogus reasons behind this, but Mitch McConnell seems to have let the real reason slip on Sunday: The National…

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