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		<title>Elizabeth Warren on The Daily  Show with Jon Stewart</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/31/elizabeth-warren-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c Elizabeth Warren www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook U.S. Senate Candidate and financial expert Elizabeth Warren explores the consequences of America&#8217;s changing investment priorities and where the money goes.]]></description>
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		<title>CBS News: Democrats Map Strategy to Re-take House</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/01/cbs-news-democrats-map-strategy-to-re-take-house/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/01/cbs-news-democrats-map-strategy-to-re-take-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reports on Democrats&#8217; strategy for the 2012 House elections and interviews three of the top recruits who have a good shot at unseating their GOP rivals.]]></description>
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		<title>Momentum Builds for Guaranteed Paid Sick Days Legislation</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/24/momentum-builds-for-guaranteed-paid-sick-days-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/24/momentum-builds-for-guaranteed-paid-sick-days-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From In These Times]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buoyed by Connecticut&#8217;s enactment this month of the nation’s first state law guaranteeing paid sick days to most workers, more than 200 organizers for paid family leave and paid sick days pushed for national legislation this week as they gathered in Washington, D.C. Their movement is picking up steam, despite the obstacles in Congress and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Growing Desperation of the Don&#8217;t-Raise-Taxes-on-the-Rich Crowd</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/20/the-growing-desperation-of-the-dont-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/20/the-growing-desperation-of-the-dont-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grover Norquist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Jim DeMint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The much-vaunted Republican pledge not to raise any taxes is crumbling. Today 34 Senate Republicans voted to end the special tax breaks for ethanol. According to no-tax-increase purists like Grover Norquist, this is tantamount to a tax increase. The truth is, Republicans are divided between those who want to bring down the budget deficit and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak Job Growth Leads to Further Rise in Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/11/weak-job-growth-leads-to-further-rise-in-unemployment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/11/weak-job-growth-leads-to-further-rise-in-unemployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research The EPOP for African Americans hit a new low. The unemployment rate edged up again in May, reaching 9.1 percent, as the rate of private-sector job growth slowed to just 83,000. There were also downward revisions to the prior two months data, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re Not Broke Nor Will We Be</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/29/we%e2%80%99re-not-broke-nor-will-we-be/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/29/we%e2%80%99re-not-broke-nor-will-we-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many policymakers and pundits claim “we’re broke”1 and “can’t afford”2 public investments and policies that support workers. These claims are meant to justify efforts to scale back government programs and public sector workers’ wages and benefits. The “we’re broke” theme also implies that America’s working families should be satisfied with the status quo in terms of wages that have been stagnant for 30 years.

Despite the rhetoric, it is clear that “we” as a nation are not broke. While the recession has led to job loss and shrinking incomes in recent years, the economy has produced substantial gains in average incomes and wealth over the last three decades, and economists agree that we can expect comparable growth over the next three decades as well. Between 1980 and 2010, income per capita grew 66.4%, and wealth per capita grew 73.2%. Over the next 30 years, per capita income is projected to grow by a comparable 60.6%. In other words, “we” are much richer as a nation than we used to be and can expect those riches
to rise substantially in the future.]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Criticizes Government, Not Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/09/forum-criticizes-government-not-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/09/forum-criticizes-government-not-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The manufacturing sector in the United States has lost 5 million jobs in 30 years and is down to about 11% of our workforce. Along with that corporate migration to feed the economies of other countries, union labor and its sponsorship of safety, well-paying careers and benefits for workers has dropped to less than 12% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GE Doesn&#8217;t Pay Taxes – Taxpayers Pay GE</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/27/ge-doesnt-pay-taxes-%e2%80%93-taxpayers-pay-ge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/27/ge-doesnt-pay-taxes-%e2%80%93-taxpayers-pay-ge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future In 1983 NY hotel-chain-owning billionaire Leona Helmsley said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes&#8230;&#8221; As our country migrates from democracy to plutocracy, this more and more appears to be official policy. Again and again we see tax cuts for the wealthy few, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Show: Crisis in Dairyland &#8211; For Richer and Poorer &#8211; Teachers and Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/07/daily-show-crisis-in-dairyland-for-richer-and-poorer-teachers-and-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/07/daily-show-crisis-in-dairyland-for-richer-and-poorer-teachers-and-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will America&#8217;s teachers follow the lead of Wall Street and start making some sacrifices for the children? The Daily Show &#8211; Crisis in Dairyland &#8211; For Richer and Poorer &#8211; Teachers and Wall Street Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#38; Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Colbert, With Jersey Mafia Accent, Poses as a Wisconsin &#8220;Thug&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/27/stephen-colbert-with-jersey-mafia-accent-poses-as-a-wisconsin-thug/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/27/stephen-colbert-with-jersey-mafia-accent-poses-as-a-wisconsin-thug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since government workers refuse to live up to the greedy goon stereotype, the Tea Party must do it for them. Stephen Colbert shows how they accomplish this.]]></description>
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