Taxpayers who waited until Wednesday to mail off their forms were greeted by a variety of advocates at different Portland post offices.

OSPIRG held a rally at the University Station Post Office downtown.  The group was urging Congress to close offshore tax havens... 

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U.S. tax dollars spent in sweatshops

Child labor, forced and unpaid overtime, toxic conditions found in government contractors’ facilities as human rights groups rally at Post Offices across the country amid ailing global economy

Berkeley has built up a sweat trying to become sweatshop-free.

More than four years after the idea first surfaced, the City Council is set to vote Tuesday on an anti-sweatshop ordinance that has bounced around among three commissions, several City Hall departments and a host of community groups, as they've debated how to pay for and enforce the plan.

But the ordinance - which would prohibit the city from buying goods manufactured in sweatshops - could be delayed five more months or so if City Manager Phil Kamlarz has his way...

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DAYTON — An organization fighting what it calls “sweatshops” is praising Dayton-based Lion Apparel for its response to complaints about conditions in a Honduras plant.

In “Subsidizing Sweatshops II,” a report embargoed until today, April 15, SweatFree Communities said its research partners last year fielded complaints from workers, including “below-minimum wages, forced overtime, lack of legally mandated social security payments and pregnancy testing.”