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		<title>Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk’d Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/24/emblematic-of-1-percenters-cooper-tire-punkd-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporations are punking Americans. Corporate executives, the 1 percenters, slash workers’ pay, then give themselves big bonuses. CEOs tell mayors and governors their businesses are in such dire shape they may close or move offshore. Government officials dutifully shovel truckloads of taxpayer cash into CEO hands, then the CEOs grant themselves more perks.  The television show Punk’d, in which actor Ashton Kutcher humiliates famous people, took a five-year hiatus. The 1 percenters gave workers and taxpayers no such break. Punking the 99 percent for profit has only escalated.]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street&#8217;s Ethical Values Explained</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/25/wall-streets-ethical-values-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/25/wall-streets-ethical-values-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hoo, boy, it&#8217;s tough in our economy. I know you worry about your own little world, Bucko – whether you&#8217;re going to have a job, your shrinking paycheck, no health care, rising prices on everything&#8230; stuff like that. But, hey Bucko, it&#8217;s not all about you. Show a little concern for those who&#8217;re taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Facts You Need To Know About The Nation’s Biggest Banks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/09/11-facts-you-need-to-know-about-the-nation%e2%80%99s-biggest-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/09/11-facts-you-need-to-know-about-the-nation%e2%80%99s-biggest-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[99 Percent Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York City more than three weeks ago have now spread across the country. The choice of Wall Street as the focal point for the protests — as even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said — makes sense due to the big bank malfeasance that led to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Pensions 101</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/08/public-pensions-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defined benefit pensions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pension funds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research With the recent spate of attacks on climate science and evolution it should not be a surprise that traditional defined benefit pensions in the public sector are now also under attack. There are powerful political actors in this country who are anxious to build a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street&#8217;s Ten Biggest Lies for 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/12/31/wall-streets-ten-biggest-lies-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/12/31/wall-streets-ten-biggest-lies-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Les Leopold Author, “The Looting of America” What a great year for Wall Street: profits up, bonuses up and, best of all, criticism down, especially from Washington. Somehow Wall Street has much of America believing its lies and rationalizations. We&#8217;re even beginning to forget that Wall Street is largely responsible for the economic mess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed&#8217;s New Foreclosure Predator Bailout</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/17/the-feds-new-foreclosure-predator-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/17/the-feds-new-foreclosure-predator-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=6380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet; Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future Despite escalating outrage over rampant foreclosure fraud, the Federal Reserve now appears ready to eviscerate a key mortgage regulation in an effort to spare banks the losses from their own wrongdoing. Even as bank executives preposterously claim to have wronged nobody in the foreclosure process, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Republican Agenda: Make Big Banks More Profitable</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/08/house-republican-agenda-make-big-banks-more-profitable/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/08/house-republican-agenda-make-big-banks-more-profitable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tula Connell AFL-CIO Managing Editor When the Republicans take over the U.S. House in January, one of the first things on their agenda is payback to those who helped get them in office: Wall Street. And they’ve already announced one way they plan to do that. The financial reform legislation that President Obama signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Mills: Wall Street&#8217;s Latest Fraud Scheme</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/05/foreclosure-mills-wall-streets-latest-fraud-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/05/foreclosure-mills-wall-streets-latest-fraud-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet Financial giants have figured out yet another way to profit from fraud. After devastating communities across the country with shady subprime loans, the mortgage industry has launched a new assault on America&#8217;s neighborhoods. Big banks are now outsourcing their foreclosure processing to shady law firms with a history of breaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Y. Coalition Tells Big Banks Do More to Stop Foreclosures</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/17/n-y-coalition-tells-big-banks-do-more-to-stop-foreclosures/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/17/n-y-coalition-tells-big-banks-do-more-to-stop-foreclosures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer A coalition of New York City unions and community groups, joined by city Comptroller John Liu, told some of the biggest banks that received hundreds of billions in taxpayer bailouts that it’s time to help out  New York homeowners facing foreclosure. In letters to JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street and Legalized Loan Sharks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/02/wall-street-and-legalized-loan-sharks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/02/wall-street-and-legalized-loan-sharks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Don McNay Award winning financial columnist and structured settlement guru  &#8220;I don&#8217;t give a damn about my bad reputation.&#8221; -Joan Jett  In my childhood, Northern Kentucky was a hot spot for organized crime. In a town full of hustlers, prostitutes and gamblers, the profession they looked down on was loan sharking. Loan sharks preyed [...]]]></description>
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