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		<title>Reaganomics 101</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/11/reaganomics-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Subsidies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I never cease to be amazed by the dogged persistence of some people in regarding Ronald Reagan and what we have come to call &#8220;Reaganomics&#8221; as commendable. When you hear these people ranting, never forget this:  Reagan and his policies turned the U.S. from the world&#8217;s largest creditor nation into the world&#8217;s largest debtor nation.  Here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing the American Decline</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/09/diagnosing-the-american-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/09/diagnosing-the-american-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working conditions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lively debate erupted in the wake of Clyde Prestowitz&#8217;s blog post about the new Oakland Bay Bridge being made in China. He found the best comments to be those of Vikram Dalal of Iowa State University and shared them as a &#8220;Guest Post&#8221; at his Foreign Policy blog. The real problems are: 1. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Side Solutions, And Not Go Over to the Supply Side</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/10/why-the-president-must-come-up-with-demand-side-solutions-and-not-go-over-to-the-supply-side/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/10/why-the-president-must-come-up-with-demand-side-solutions-and-not-go-over-to-the-supply-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley &#8220;I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we&#8217;re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,&#8221; President Obama said Tuesday, amid the flood of bad economic news, including last Friday&#8217;s alarming jobs report. Does this mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring the Balance</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/06/restoring-the-balance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/06/restoring-the-balance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Summers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo Hindery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Economic Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Bloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Geithner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Lux Author, “The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be” Picking a new head for the National Economic Council is an important moment for the president&#8217;s rapidly realigning White House staff. It is an opportunity to do two very critical things at once going into the president&#8217;s crucial final full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Conservatisms</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/16/the-two-conservatisms/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/16/the-two-conservatisms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=3781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect This precarious era of reform faces threats from two very different kinds of conservatism. The first is all too flagrant. A cynical Republican Party that would rather block any Obama initiative than address deep national challenges combines with an increasingly lunatic-fringe right-wing populism that is becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The House is on Fire</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/01/the-house-is-on-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/01/the-house-is-on-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Center for Working-Class Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Jack Metzgar Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago A few weeks ago, Charlie Rose facilitated a discussion about the perils of the U.S. national debt among a thoughtful, articulate group of one politician, two businessmen, and two economists.  Except for a brief discussion of the bond market, I was able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy&#8217;s Quick Win for Social Security</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/26/kennedys-quick-win-for-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/26/kennedys-quick-win-for-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Price Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research I first met Ted Kennedy in the fall of 1995. The context was truly bizarre. Alan Greenspan had testified to the Senate Finance Committee in the fall of 1994 that the consumer price index (CPI) overstated the true rate of inflation. He told the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New thinking on the economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/02/09/new-thinking-on-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/02/09/new-thinking-on-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Jeff Faux, my former boss at the Economic Policy Institute, tells a story from his days as a foot soldier in President Johnson&#8217;s War on Poverty. Johnson was asked by a delegation from Alaska if he had an anti-poverty program for their state. Johnson [...]]]></description>
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