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October 12, 2009 - By James Ridgeway, The Unsilent Generation

October 12, 2009 - By Olga Pierce, ProPublica The State of Alabama's unemployment insurance trust fund is the latest to collapse under the weight of the Great Recession.

October 9, 2009 - By Caroline Fan, Progressive States Network

October 8, 2009 - By Tova Andrea Wang, Demos

October 6, 2009 - By Rinku Sen, New America Media

October 5, 2009 - By Matt Wasson, Appalachian Voices As Congress was returning from the August recess, there wasn't much news about the climate bill. The only energy-related news breaking through the coverage of the rancorous health care debates and town-hall tea parties was a study on "energy sprawl" published by five staff members of the Nature Conservancy.

October 1, 2009 - By Linda Meric Crystal Lee Sutton, the woman whose life inspired the 1979 film "Norma Rae," about a brave union organizer, died of cancer on Sept. 11 after struggling in 2008 with her health insurance company.