Mark Gruenberg

Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of Press Associates Inc. (PAI), a union news service in Washington, D.C. that he has headed since 1999. Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. Mark obtained his BA in public policy from the University of Chicago and worked as the University of Chicago correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.

Lawsuit: Trump Using New Citizenship Question on Census to Raise Campaign Cash

Republican President Donald Trump – days before his Commerce Department announced the Census Bureau’s citizenship questions – used his approval of the query as a tactic to raise campaign cash.

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Atlantic Aviation in Moon Township, Pa., Saturday, March 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NEW YORK — Not content with intimidating Hispanic-named people with a loaded citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census, Republican President Donald Trump – 10 days before his Commerce Department announced its decision – used his approval of the query as a tactic to raise campaign cash. Trump then repeated his boast in yet another fundraising

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Stoking Racist Frenzy Over “Caravan” Trump Ends Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans

What Trump calls the “caravan” of thousands that he claims are planning to invade the U.S., pouring across the border and bursting into this country illegally, is actually just this year’s version of an operation that has been going on since at least 2010.

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On Thursday May 4, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen announced the impending end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 57,000 citizens of Honduras now living in the United States. The timing of the statement is highly suspicious. It comes as the Trump administration has been whipping up a nationalistic frenzy over a small

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Reviving MLK’s Poverty Campaign, New Poor People’s Campaign to Kick Off with Mass D.C. Rally

The GOP Trump administration and Congress’ Republican majority have launched wars on both workers’ rights and the poor. The latter war includes proposed cuts in food stamps, federally subsidized housing and so-called “work requirements” at poverty wages to stay eligible for aid.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, lead a march on behalf of striking Memphis, Tennessee., sanitation workers. Fifty years ago, two sanitation workers were killed by a malfunctioning garbage truck in Memphis. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to support the strike, a move that cost him his life when he was fatally shot on the balcony of a Memphis hotel on April 4, 1968, March 28, 1968. (Sam Melhorn/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

WASHINGTON—The New Poor People’s Campaign, the mass movement planned to bring the problems of poverty – and agitate for eradicating them – to the nation’s conscience, will kick off with an anti-war, anti-militarism sermon in D.C. on May 6 by co-chair the Rev. William Barber and a mass rally, with planned civil disobedience, at the U.S. Capitol on

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Bernie Sanders Rouses Progressive Candidates With Call to Fight Democratic and Republican Establishment

“The establishment wants, #1, to push tax cuts for millionaires and a war agenda. And #2 is to tell you ‘politics are too complicated for you, so don’t get involved.’” And Republicans’ “idea of a good election is nobody votes and big money dominates.”

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., roused a crowd of hundreds of progressives running for political office—from county board to Congress—with a call to fight back against the political establishments of both parties. “When we have the least-qualified president in our history and right-wing extremists in governors chairs, our job is to

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Millions March Across the US Demanding Gun Control

Students and supporters took to the streets in up to 800 separate ‘March For Our Lives’ rallies across the US, demanding stricter gun control.

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Crowds of people hold signs on Pennsylvania Avenue at the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control, Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON — Led by the survivors of the massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a record-breaking number of students and adults filled Washington’s historic Pennsylvania Avenue in a massive show of support for strong national gun control. Aided by survivors of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., and by Dr.

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