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	<title>USW Blog &#187; From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker</title>
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	<description>USW Fighting Globally For Workers&#039; Dignity</description>
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		<title>Unemployment Falls to 8.5 Percent, but Job Growth Remains Weak</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/08/unemployment-falls-to-8-5-percent-but-job-growth-remains-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/08/unemployment-falls-to-8-5-percent-but-job-growth-remains-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without the quirk in courier jobs, employment increased by 160,000. The unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent in December, the lowest level since the 8.3 percent rate reported for February of 2009, the month that Congress approved the stimulus package. The drop was driven primarily by a 0.3 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Retake Politics From the One Percent in Both Political Parties</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/time-to-retake-politics-from-the-one-percent-in-both-political-parties/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/time-to-retake-politics-from-the-one-percent-in-both-political-parties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country is still celebrating the inability of the supercommittee to cut Social Security and Medicare, but it is important to move on from this victory to retake control of the political debate from the One Percent. As it stands, the One Percent are insisting that the country genuflect over the non-problem of the budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Occupy Stopped the Super Committee</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/26/how-occupy-stopped-the-super-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/26/how-occupy-stopped-the-super-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress gave us a wonderful Thanksgiving present when we got word that the supercommittee &#8220;superheroes&#8221; were hanging up their capes. While many in the media were pushing the story of a dysfunctional Congress that could not get anything done, the exact opposite was true. The supercommittee was about finding a backdoor way to cut social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supercommittee of the One Percent Won&#8217;t Even Think of Taxing Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/02/supercommittee-of-the-one-percent-wont-even-think-of-taxing-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/02/supercommittee-of-the-one-percent-wont-even-think-of-taxing-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxing The Rich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[We Are The 99 Percent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone still questioned who owns Washington, the Congressional supercommittee charged with reducing projected deficits by $1.2 trillion seems determined to end any doubts. According to press accounts, both the Republicans and Democrats on the committee support a plan to reduce average Social Security benefits by 3 percent. While whacking our parents and grandparents with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Generation of CEOs Who Don&#8217;t Know How to Raise Wages</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/26/a-generation-of-ceos-who-dont-know-how-to-raise-wages/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/26/a-generation-of-ceos-who-dont-know-how-to-raise-wages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who follow the rants from our business leaders and their allies in politics and the media have been struck by a disquieting cry in recent months. We have been repeatedly told that, even though we have more than 25 million people unemployed or underemployed, businesses are unable to find qualified workers. For example, last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Versus Bankers at the Fed</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/18/democracy-versus-bankers-at-the-fed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/18/democracy-versus-bankers-at-the-fed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve Board has provided the basis for thousands of conspiracy theories in its near-100-year existence. These conspiracies have some basis in reality as can be seen by the Fed&#8217;s recent moves on monetary policy. In the last two meetings of the Fed&#8217;s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed&#8217;s key decision-making body, the members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Being Rich Makes Us Poor, People Should Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/11/when-being-rich-makes-us-poor-people-should-occupy-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/11/when-being-rich-makes-us-poor-people-should-occupy-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Very Serious People in Washington are busy trying to find creative ways to cut Social Security and Medicare and take other benefits from middle-class and moderate-income families. The refrain here is that we just can&#8217;t afford this level of generosity any more. There are two parts of this story that should drive the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Is the Washington Post a Criminal Enterprise?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/21/is-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme-is-the-washington-post-a-criminal-enterprise/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/21/is-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme-is-the-washington-post-a-criminal-enterprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Texas Governor Rick Perry attacked Social Security as a Ponzi scheme as an opening gambit in his presidential campaign we have been treated to a spirited debate in the media on the truth of this proposition. Those of us who consider this to be ill-informed nonsense that has the effect of misleading the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does President Obama Want to Impose a Crushing Burden on Our Children?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/13/does-president-obama-want-to-impose-a-crushing-burden-on-our-children/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/13/does-president-obama-want-to-impose-a-crushing-burden-on-our-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deficits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry deficit fanatics, this one has nothing to do with the cost of the stimulus or the deficits run-up during the Obama years. We&#8217;re talking real money here. We&#8217;re talking about plans to raise the age of Medicare eligibility to 67. To deficit hawks everywhere this is a great way to save the government money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fix for the Debt Ceiling That No One Is Talking About</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/05/a-fix-for-the-debt-ceiling-that-no-one-is-talking-about/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/05/a-fix-for-the-debt-ceiling-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Economists believe that people respond to incentives. The fact that economists never suffer career consequences for failing to consider new ideas explains why they so rarely consider any policy that has not long been in the standard bag of tricks. I mention this background since it is relevant to the reaction given a proposal on [...]]]></description>
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