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		<title>Meet the Problem: 25 Senators Voted to Build &#8220;Bridge To Nowhere&#8221; in 2005 and Against Building Bridges Today</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/10/meet-the-problem-25-senators-voted-to-build-bridge-to-nowhere-in-2005-and-against-building-bridges-today/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/10/meet-the-problem-25-senators-voted-to-build-bridge-to-nowhere-in-2005-and-against-building-bridges-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Luce of the Financial Times made an astute observation today, regarding the mostly Republican group of senators that filibustered the most recent legislation to invest $60 billion in creating infrastructure jobs: Until now, America has never faced an ideological divide on infrastructure: both parties accepted the need to upgrade roads, dams, bridges, energy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republican Jobs Plan: Jobs? What Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/07/the-republican-jobs-plan-jobs-what-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/07/the-republican-jobs-plan-jobs-what-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Jobs Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firefighters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first responders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase that classic Wendy’s hamburger ad, when it comes to the Republicans’ so-called jobs plan, “Where’s the Jobs? Senate Republicans successfully filibustered President Obama’s American Jobs Act and blocked a vote on a break-out provision that would enable some 400,000 teachers, firefighters and other first responders to get or keep a job. Republicans vow to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infrastructure Investment in Aberdeen Builds Bridges and Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/06/infrastructure-investment-in-aberdeen-builds-bridges-and-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/06/infrastructure-investment-in-aberdeen-builds-bridges-and-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rebuild America Jobs Act]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are reams of reports, tons of studies and rivers of statistics that prove investments in infrastructure pay off in jobs and economic boosts to the communities. When more people have good paychecks in the pockets, they pump money into their local economies. But it’s the up close and personal examples that can be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unions Invest In America’s Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/05/unions-invest-in-america%e2%80%99s-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/05/unions-invest-in-america%e2%80%99s-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Society of Civil Engineers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Jarvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loral Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Education Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEIU]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who will rebuild America? Despite the indisputable decay of our roads, bridges, ports, airports and schools, no one has come forward to patch them up, much less build their more efficient and attractive successors. “Prior to 1975,” says Bernard Schwartz, the former CEO of defense and aerospace manufacturer Loral Corp., who has taken the rebuilding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time for the Solutions: Hundreds of Thousands Support Big Plan to Fix Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/01/its-time-for-the-solutions-hundreds-of-thousands-support-big-plan-to-fix-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/01/its-time-for-the-solutions-hundreds-of-thousands-support-big-plan-to-fix-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract for the American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War In Iraq Financial Reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America and the world owe a great debt to Occupy Wall Street for making the problem of economic inequality impossible to ignore. The tiny spark that began in Zuccotti Park just six weeks ago has triggered a major shift in the national dialogue on inequality, our economy and our democracy. Now it&#8217;s time to begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why This is Exactly the Time to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/29/why-this-is-exactly-the-time-to-rebuild-america%e2%80%99s-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/29/why-this-is-exactly-the-time-to-rebuild-america%e2%80%99s-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like only yesterday conservative nabobs of negativity predicted America’s ballooning budget deficit would generate soaring inflation and crippling costs of additional federal borrowing. Remember Standard &#038; Poor’s downgrade of the United States? Recall the intense worry about investors’ confidence in government bonds — America’s IOUs? Hmmm. Last week ten-year yields on U.S. Treasuries closed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good First Step</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/12/a-good-first-step/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/12/a-good-first-step/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Prospect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuttner]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s jobs speech was the right narrative and the right tone. It suggested a president who was a capable leader in a crisis, who gets America’s pain. He also boxes in the Republicans—and by offering a plan that includes elements that many Republicans support, he makes it much harder for them to oppose it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridge into Troubled Waters</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/30/bridge-into-troubled-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/30/bridge-into-troubled-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buy American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I opened up my Yahoo account when I got off work and was greeted by an article from the New York Times about how the State of California is outsourcing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge project to China. Outsourcing has become an everyday occurrence. Big Businesses and governments like this tell our American citizens and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO Announces Commitment to Promote Large-Scale Infrastructure Investments</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/29/afl-cio-announces-commitment-to-promote-large-scale-infrastructure-investments/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/29/afl-cio-announces-commitment-to-promote-large-scale-infrastructure-investments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Trumka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By James Parks AFL-CIO Senior Writer The AFL-CIO today is announcing a major “commitment to action” to bring public and private partners together to encourage both workers’ capital and skilled labor to promote large-scale investments in America’s infrastructure. This pioneering commitment, which will be announced at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Chicago, will seek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Decline Puts Economic, National Security at Risk</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/manufacturing-decline-puts-economic-national-security-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/manufacturing-decline-puts-economic-national-security-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Rockefeller]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer The nation “must dig in and redouble our efforts to ‘Make It In America‘,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., at a Senate hearing Wednesday on reviving the nation’s manufacturing base. Testifying on behalf of the AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard told the Commerce, Science and Transportation [...]]]></description>
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