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	<title>USW Blog &#187; middle class</title>
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	<description>USW Fighting Globally For Workers&#039; Dignity</description>
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		<title>Inequality, the Middle Class, and Growth</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/02/04/inequality-the-middle-class-and-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/02/04/inequality-the-middle-class-and-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following puts together a bunch of stuff I&#8217;ve been posting over the past few months&#8230; it&#8217;s time to start thinking about these ideas in terms of new economic models to replace the old, worn out ones&#8230; The trickle-down, deregulatory agenda &#8212; what I have called YOYO, or &#8220;you&#8217;re on your own&#8221; economics &#8212; presumes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concepts, Real Life and the Working Class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/31/concepts-real-life-and-the-working-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/31/concepts-real-life-and-the-working-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Center for Working-Class Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working class]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=13419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, it’s hard thinking and talking about social class in these United States.  Most of the time since President Obama was elected, there’s nobody out there but “the rich” and “the middle class,” as if both the working class and poverty have been eliminated.  Then along comes a political election, and all of a sudden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Diversity of the White Working Class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/12/the-diversity-of-the-white-working-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/12/the-diversity-of-the-white-working-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Center for Working-Class Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archie Bunker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white working class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working class]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent firestorm of debate stirred by Thomas Edsall’s New York Times report of a behind-the-scenes plan by “Democratic operatives” to “explicitly abandon the white working class” reveals more about the degraded state of political journalism than it does about either Democratic operatives or the working class. Edsall is a highly respected member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Schultz: Middle Class Workers Under Attack</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/02/ed-schultz-middle-class-workers-under-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/02/ed-schultz-middle-class-workers-under-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Three stories illustrating the attack on the middle class.]]></description>
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		<title>Former JPMorgan Banker: Exploiting Consumers Is ‘The Purpose Of The Banking Organization’</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/21/former-jpmorgan-banker-exploiting-consumers-is-%e2%80%98the-purpose-of-the-banking-organization%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/21/former-jpmorgan-banker-exploiting-consumers-is-%e2%80%98the-purpose-of-the-banking-organization%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ThinkProgress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street banks, largely spared from the economic ruin felt by millions of Americans since the financial crisis of 2008, have returned to profitability, generating higher profits in the two-and-a-half years since the crisis than they did in nearly eight years preceding it. But that hasn’t stopped them from seeking new ways to generate revenue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Schultz Moving to 8 p.m.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/24/ed-schultz-moving-to-8-p-m/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/24/ed-schultz-moving-to-8-p-m/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Schultz has been a champion of America’s working- and middle-class for years, most recently on MSNBC where he had a 6 p.m. and then a 10 p.m. time slot. Starting today, the Ed Schultz Show moves to prime-time viewing, and will broadcast live at 8 p.m., ET, prime time for millions of viewers. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Years of Discontent Trigger American Autumn</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/07/years-of-discontent-trigger-american-autumn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/07/years-of-discontent-trigger-american-autumn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Springfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change to Win]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troubled Asset Relief Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given what’s been going on in the United States since the bank bailout, it’s amazing that Occupy Wall Street didn’t precede the Arab Spring. The powers-that-be, from the rich to their coin-operated politicians, have mocked and belittled and ignored the protesters, the 99 percenters as they call themselves – everyone but the richest one percent. No matter what the critics say, these young people, with righteous outrage and new age communication, have launched the American Autumn. Unions like mine, the United Steelworkers, understand their issues and are here to support them.]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Continue to Wage War Against Government Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/01/republicans-continue-to-wage-war-against-government-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/01/republicans-continue-to-wage-war-against-government-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teleprompter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republicans have been so desperate to find new and clever ways to attack the president that they&#8217;ve managed to paint themselves into rhetorical corners with wafer thin sloganeering and laughable attempts at snark. It&#8217;s no wonder, then, why they&#8217;re dogged by an ongoing series of contradictions. These incongruities whiz past our faces so quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equity and Sensibility</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/21/equity-and-sensibility/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/21/equity-and-sensibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffett Rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income tax rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Cuban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriotic Millionaires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive tax code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rich and wealthy corporations have perverted the progressive tax code.  Now what America’s got is a flip-flop under which the fabulously wealthy pay taxes at rates lower than the middle class. This week, President Obama proposed returning the tax code to a time closer to equity and sensibility. He asked that millionaires and corporations pay taxes at the same rate as the middle class. Not more, as they once did. But at an equal rate. It’s not revolutionary. It’s retro. And it would help create jobs.]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP Will Raise Taxes — on the Middle Class and Working Poor</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/26/the-gop-will-raise-taxes-%e2%80%94-on-the-middle-class-and-working-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/26/the-gop-will-raise-taxes-%e2%80%94-on-the-middle-class-and-working-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP Hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meyerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical GOP shenanigans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America’s presumably anti-tax party wants to raise your taxes. Come January, the Republicans plan to raise the taxes of anyone who earns $50,000 a year by $1,000, and anyone who makes $100,000 by $2,000. Their tax hike doesn’t apply to income from investments. It doesn’t apply to any wage income in excess of $106,800 a [...]]]></description>
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