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		<title>The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/29/the-deficit-hawks-target-nurses-and-firefighters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/29/the-deficit-hawks-target-nurses-and-firefighters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asset bubble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Many people might think that the country&#8217;s problems stem from the fact that too much money has been going to the very rich. Over the last three decades, the richest one percent of the population has increased its share of national income by almost 10 [...]]]></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>
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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>The Subprime Swindle and the Foreclosure Fraud Cover-Up</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/14/the-subprime-swindle-and-the-foreclosure-fraud-cover-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/14/the-subprime-swindle-and-the-foreclosure-fraud-cover-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet; Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future There are plenty of reasons why the foreclosure fraud crisis sweeping the nation&#8217;s housing market is an economic disaster. Banks are charging borrowers illegal fees, kicking the wrong people out of their homes and even hiring thugs to illegally break into houses. But the fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubled Borrowers?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/29/troubled-borrowers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/29/troubled-borrowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet I&#8217;ll have plenty to say about the escalating foreclosure fraud scandal later this week. For now: This is a big, big deal. It isn&#8217;t a clerical error, it&#8217;s an aggressive attempt to slap borrowers with thousands of dollars in illegal fees for the luxury of being foreclosed on. And what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economists Tell the Masses: &#8220;It Could Have Been Worse&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/02/economists-tell-the-masses-it-could-have-been-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/02/economists-tell-the-masses-it-could-have-been-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Blinder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the economists out of the country. While the greed of the Wall Street gang provided the fuel for the bubble, the economists played an essential role as enablers. This was most directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Budget Deficit Chicken Hawks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/27/the-budget-deficit-chicken-hawks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/27/the-budget-deficit-chicken-hawks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[America Speaks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deficit chicken hawks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Hawks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker  Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Most people are familiar with the concept of &#8220;chicken hawks.&#8221; Chicken hawks are the politicians who are anxious to send other people to risk their lives in war, but somehow managed to avoid service when they had the opportunity to fight themselves. Former Vice-President Dick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senators Who Gave Us 15 Million Unemployed Want to Deny Them Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/20/the-senators-who-gave-us-15-million-unemployed-want-to-deny-them-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/20/the-senators-who-gave-us-15-million-unemployed-want-to-deny-them-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research It is amazing how people in Washington are so forgiving &#8212; of each other. We have close to 15 million people unemployed and more than 8 million people under-employed because the folks managing our economy were incompetent. In spite of the efforts of economists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Should We Trust the IMF?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/29/why-should-we-trust-the-imf/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/29/why-should-we-trust-the-imf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Is advice from the IMF better than advice from a drunk in the street? That is the question that people around the world should be asking as the International Monetary Fund dishes out its prescription for austerity. The IMF program calls for cutbacks in government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America Speaks Back: Derailing the Drive to Cut Social Security and Medicare</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/21/america-speaks-back-derailing-the-drive-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/21/america-speaks-back-derailing-the-drive-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Next weekend will feature another milestone in the drive to cut Social Security and Medicare. The organization America Speaks will be hosting a series of 20 meetings in cities across the country. They will ask the people at these meetings, a cross section of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Manufacturing Business Expert Richard McCormack</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Richard McCormack     Q&#38;A       Leo W. Gerard: Richard, when you appeared recently at Youngstown State University as a guest of the Center for Working-Class Lecture Series, you talked about how essential manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and how politicians seem clueless about that. In fact, you said, “Politicians don’t [...]]]></description>
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