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	<title>USW Blog &#187; American Dream</title>
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		<title>Occupy: Resurrecting Rev. King’s Final Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/16/occupy-resurrecting-rev-kings-final-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/16/occupy-resurrecting-rev-kings-final-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rev. Jesse Jackson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Martin Luther King’s final crusade, his Poor People’s Campaign, and the Occupiers’ championing the nation’s 99 percent are remarkable in their similarities. It’s tragic that in the 44 years since Rev. King launched his campaign for an economic Bill of Rights, assuring jobs, health care and housing to all Americans, that the nation’s poor and middle class have lurched backward instead of forward. It’s hopeful, however, that a whole new generation of idealists has taken up the dream of economic justice.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Takes the Offensive on Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/09/obama-takes-the-offensive-on-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/09/obama-takes-the-offensive-on-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s speech to Congress tonight reset the political battle lines and put Progressives back on the offensive. The speech included provisions that Republicans in Congress may actually agree to pass &#8212; like continuing the payroll tax holiday that if allowed to lapse would affect the paychecks of virtually every American worker. But it also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger Than the Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/25/bigger-than-the-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/25/bigger-than-the-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I joined with MoveOn.org and launched the Rebuild the Dream campaign to help give a voice to the millions of Americans who aren&#8217;t being heard in Washington. This past weekend, we organized nearly 1,600 house meetings across the country &#8212; nearly double the number of protests the Tea Party held when they launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reich: The Truth About the Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/18/reich-the-truth-about-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/18/reich-the-truth-about-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Reich connects the dots on the economy, in less than 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Who knew he could draw!?!]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Give Trillions to Health Insurance Companies</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/10/republicans-give-trillions-to-health-insurance-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/10/republicans-give-trillions-to-health-insurance-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Rome Executive Director, Health Care for America Now! If the Republicans have their way and privatize Medicare, it will put millions of seniors at the mercy of health insurance companies and force them to pay $39 trillion more for Medicare coverage than they would under existing law, according to the Center for Economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Right Thing: Create Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/06/do-the-right-thing-create-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/06/do-the-right-thing-create-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder when our elected officials will get it.  Get what, you may ask.   Get the idea that our trade policies are killing us and have for many years.  Get the idea that American corporations are NOT going to create jobs here in the United States when they get huge tax breaks for giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Budget Plan Denies the American Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/08/republican-budget-plan-denies-the-american-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/08/republican-budget-plan-denies-the-american-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Rome Executive Director, Health Care for America Now! The Republican budget proposal released by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would give millionaires and political campaign contributors huge tax breaks while punishing seniors and working families. Ryan&#8217;s extremist plan would decimate Medicare and Medicaid and terminate the Affordable Care Act, undermining the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Williams and the Triumph of American Dream Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/07/ted-williams-and-the-triumph-of-american-dream-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/07/ted-williams-and-the-triumph-of-american-dream-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland Cavaliers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Zinn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist Thanks to near-ubiquitous national media coverage, you probably know by now that Ted Williams was a homeless and jobless man who is now being offered fairly major media jobs because he had the random luck of becoming a YouTube sensation. This is certainly a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse Off Than Their Parents</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/01/worse-off-than-their-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/01/worse-off-than-their-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AARP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    By Natasha Chart Campaign for America’s Future Fellow Parents usually want their children to have a better life than they did. In the United States, the parents of today&#8217;s under-30 crowd may be disappointed in that hope. Throughout last year, they were far more likely than other age groups to have reported unemployment [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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