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• Lawmakers want Ariz. immigration law in Fla. | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY Local legislators want to mirror Arizona's new law that would enable police on routine stops and arrests to ask and determine whether a person is in the country illegally.

• Jim Greer arrested: Ex-Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer arrested - OrlandoSentinel.com Jim Greer, the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida who has been under criminal investigation for his financial handling of the organization, was indicted on six charges including money laundering and grand theft, state officials announced today

• Strike at Honda Plant Highlights Pay Gap in China - NYTimes.com FOSHAN, China — After years of being pushed to work 12-hour days, six days a week on monotonous low-wage assembly line tasks, China’s workers are starting to push back.

• Pelosi: House Will Pass COBRA Subsidies, State Aid Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Tuesday that the House would return to the debate over COBRA subsidies and aid to state governments when Congress returns, and may package both of them together. The spending was cut from a jobs bill the House passed Friday in order to mollify Democrats concerned about the deficit. The House returns

• AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | House Passes Watered-Down Jobs Bill, Too Late to Help Jobless By 215-204, the U.S. House today passed a watered-down version of H.R. 4213, “The Promoting American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act of 2010.” The bill extends unemployment insurance (UI) for six months. But the Senate, now on vacation, will not even consider the bill until the week of June 7, a week after UI expires for millions of jobless workers

• AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | The Assault on Public Employees In this cross-post from the Huffington Post and Seminal, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee writes that attacks focusing on public employees are misdirected: the real culprits for the nation’s economic mess are Big Banks and Wall Street.

  Robert Reich: Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary ReceivershipIt's time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP's operations in the Gulf of Mexico until the gusher is stopped.
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