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		<title>The Best of Times and the Worst of Times</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/01/the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JColeman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: June 26, 2009 08:47 AM from the Huffington Post
May you live in interesting times goes the old blessing. Well for all of us the times could hardly be more interesting. As Charles Dickens wrote in a Tale of Two Cities&#8211;&#8221;It was the best of times and the worst of times.&#8221;
The nation&#8217;s economy is almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Policy That Dare Not Speak Its Name</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/29/the-policy-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>

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By Robert Kuttner
Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect
I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only reader who noticed the juxtaposition of two front page stories in Sunday&#8217;s New York Times dealing with health care. The first article cited a new Times-CBS poll showing that 72 percent of Americans favored a government run health plan comparable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gut Check Time on Shackling Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/26/gut-check-time-on-shackling-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial reform]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Harry Reid]]></category>

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By Robert L. Borosage
Co-Director of the Campaign for America&#8217;s Future
The administration has rolled out its financial reform plan, which the president accurately calls the &#8220;the boldest set of reforms in financial regulation in 75 years.&#8221;
Rep. Barney Frank, the chair of the House Banking Committee, promises to act rapidly, hoping to pass reforms by the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Matters: What Must be Included in Health Care Reform Legislation?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/25/union-matters-what-must-be-included-in-health-care-reform-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/25/union-matters-what-must-be-included-in-health-care-reform-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
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QUESTION:  &#8220;The U.S. House and Senate are completing drafts of health care reform legislation. President Barack Obama has said he wants Congress to pass the legislation so he can sign it this fall. What do you believe must be included in that legislation to resolve the health insurance crisis in the U.S.?&#8221;
 
Real Public Option; Choice
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worker Rights: No Balls, No Gains</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/24/worker-rights-no-balls-no-gains/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/24/worker-rights-no-balls-no-gains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
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By Joe Bageant
Author of &#8220;Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America&#8217;s Class War&#8221;
In looking back on growing up, I always remember 1957 and 1958 at &#8220;the two good years,&#8221; They were the only years my working class redneck family ever caught a real break in their working lives, and that break came because of organized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Muscle and the Public Option in Health Care</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/23/private-muscle-and-the-public-option-in-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/23/private-muscle-and-the-public-option-in-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Baucus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



By Robert L. Borosage
Co-Director of the Campaign for America&#8217;s Future
We&#8217;re headed into the end game for health care reform. The president has put himself in the arena. The insurance lobby is unleashing the scare campaign. A strong bill will pass the House. But at this point, too many Senators are still standing in the way.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Is a Right, Not a Privilege</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/22/health-care-is-a-right-not-a-privilege/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/22/health-care-is-a-right-not-a-privilege/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Hill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
By Sen. Bernie Sanders
Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont
Let&#8217;s be clear. Our health care system is disintegrating. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. At a time when 60 million people, including many with insurance, do not have access to a medical home, more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RNC&#8217;s Michael Steele Becomes Union Man</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/21/rncs-michael-steele-becomes-union-man/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/21/rncs-michael-steele-becomes-union-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
By Leo W. Gerard
International President
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele appears to be suffering philosophical identity confusion, you know, like some people experience sexual identity confusion.
He&#8217;s got an organization named United STEELE Workers Union, white hardhat emblem and all, collecting members for him on Facebook. It had 255 worldwide as of June 19.
This is disconcerting on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR, the IMF, and the Global Savings Glut</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/20/npr-the-imf-and-the-global-savings-glut/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/20/npr-the-imf-and-the-global-savings-glut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>

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By Dean Baker
Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Obama administration is having a tough time getting its request for $108 billion for the IMF through Congress. Bank bailouts are rapidly losing popularity. And bailouts of foreign banks are probably even less popular than bailouts of U.S. banks.
But, NPR is rushing to the rescue. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 11th: Giant Employee Free Choice Act Events Across Arkansas</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/19/july-11th-giant-employee-free-choice-act-events-across-arkansas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/06/19/july-11th-giant-employee-free-choice-act-events-across-arkansas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
		
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By Stewart Acuff
Special Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO
On Saturday July 11th, national AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka will join Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and hundreds of union and civil rights activists and faith leaders in a statewide caravan, march, rally and catfish fry in Arkansas to call for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
Union members [...]]]></description>
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