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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Great Depression</title>
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	<description>USW Fighting Globally For Workers&#039; Dignity</description>
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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>
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				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Martin Luther King]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rev. Jesse Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rev. Ralph Abernathy]]></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>Why We Need a Bold New Jobs Program</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/08/why-we-need-a-bold-new-jobs-program/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/08/why-we-need-a-bold-new-jobs-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roosevelt Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Works Progress Administration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“To those who say that our expenditures for Public Works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford, I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance&#8230; I stand or fall by my refusal to accept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Spending Cap Would Have Caused Depression if it Were Law in 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/13/republican-spending-cap-would-have-caused-depression-if-it-were-law-in-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/13/republican-spending-cap-would-have-caused-depression-if-it-were-law-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cap On Federal Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Corker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=7486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author Republicans have proposed legislation that would cap federal spending at 20.6% of the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) &#8212; just below the average of the last forty years. Sounds reasonable, right? Only if you like the idea of another Great Depression. Over the last forty years federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDR: The Second Bill of Rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/11/fdr-the-second-bill-of-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/11/fdr-the-second-bill-of-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Bill Of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future How does America dig out of the hole we are in? Surely the focus must be on first principles, how do we recreate an economy that works for working people? With the right talking about a return to the principles of the Constitution, it is worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Thanksgiving Feast for Wall Street. . .Taxpayer Supported</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/25/another-thanksgiving-feast-for-wall-street-taxpayer-supported/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/25/another-thanksgiving-feast-for-wall-street-taxpayer-supported/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billionaires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit commission]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=6542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Les Leopold Author, “The Looting of America” &#8220;Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them.&#8221; ~ &#8220;The Great Thanksgiving Host,&#8221; The Ludwig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Will We Face Up to the Enormity of the Jobs Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/14/when-will-we-face-up-to-the-enormity-of-the-jobs-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/14/when-will-we-face-up-to-the-enormity-of-the-jobs-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billionaires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=6348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Les Leopold Author, “The Looting of America” If future job creation reaches about 208,000 jobs per month, the average monthly job creation for the best year for job creation in the 2000s, it will take almost 140 months (about 11.5 years) to reach pre-recession employment levels. In a more optimistic scenario with 321,000 jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.K. Swallows Austerity So We Don’t Have To</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/27/the-u-k-swallows-austerity-so-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-to/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/27/the-u-k-swallows-austerity-so-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Hoover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Little brothers exist to be abused by their older siblings. The United Kingdom has willingly played the role of abused sibling for the United States for decades. When our president wanted to launch a hare-brained invasion of Iraq, no one was more outspoken in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Like the Recession, You’d Love &#8220;Speaker Boehner&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/12/if-you-like-the-recession-you%e2%80%99d-love-speaker-boehner/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/12/if-you-like-the-recession-you%e2%80%99d-love-speaker-boehner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auto Industry Rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic recovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author Last week&#8217;s employment report served to reinforce the utter bankruptcy of Republican economic policy &#8212; and the absolute necessity of remembering the lessons of the last century of economic history. The private sector job market is slowly stumbling out of the economic ditch into which it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Brings Class War to America?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/04/wall-street-brings-class-war-to-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/04/wall-street-brings-class-war-to-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billionaires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forbes 400]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Les Leopold Author, “The Looting of America” As thousands of demonstrators marched in European capitals on Wednesday to protest recent austerity measures, officials in Brussels proposed stiffening sanctions for governments that fail to cut their budget deficits and debt swiftly enough. (&#8220;Workers In Europe Protest Austerity Measures&#8221;, New York Times, 9/30/2010) Oh, do the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10-2-10 Rally Gives Progressives a Chance to Stand Up Straight</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/01/10-2-10-rally-gives-progressives-a-chance-to-stand-up-straight/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/01/10-2-10-rally-gives-progressives-a-chance-to-stand-up-straight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Ted Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get out the vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[March On Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mid-term elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Nation Working Together]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sylvia Lazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter Mobilization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author This Saturday, a broad coalition of progressive organizations will hold a massive One Nation Working Together rally &#8212; actually kind of a revival &#8212; aimed at allowing progressives to emerge from a defensive crouch, stand up straight and mobilize our forces to do battle in the decisive [...]]]></description>
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