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	<title>USW Blog &#187; minimum wage</title>
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		<title>Republicans Try to Convert America into Pottersville</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/27/republicans-try-to-convert-america-into-pottersville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The happy ending to the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life” is the people of Bedford Falls banding together to rescue George Bailey and the Bailey Brothers Building &#038; Loan that had given so many of them a leg up over the years. Republicans seek a different conclusion.  They find middle class cooperation and community intolerable. They want the film’s greedy banker, Henry Potter, with his “every man for himself” philosophy to triumph. In the spirit of their self-centered mentor Ayn Rand, Republicans are trying to disfigure America until she resembles Pottersville. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Rick Perry Has Been on the Public Dole His Whole Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/08/how-rick-perry-has-been-on-the-public-dole-his-whole-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/08/how-rick-perry-has-been-on-the-public-dole-his-whole-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dole]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When this taxpayer-supported lifer flits into your town to declare that he will slash public benefits, he means in your life, not his. Presidential wannabe Rick Perry is flitting all around the country &#8212; hither, thither and yon &#8212; spreading little &#8220;Perry Tales&#8221; about himself and the many wonders he has worked as governor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum-Wage Earners Falling Further Behind</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/07/minimum-wage-earners-falling-further-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/07/minimum-wage-earners-falling-further-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, 4.5 million of America’s workers enjoyed a modest pay increase, as the federal minimum wage rose from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour. The increase was the final of a three-step boost enacted in 2007. Of those getting a bump in pay, more than three-quarters were adults, nearly two-thirds were women, and nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Kucinich Exposes Industry Shills Over Min. Wage</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/15/rep-kucinich-exposes-industry-shills-over-min-wage/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/15/rep-kucinich-exposes-industry-shills-over-min-wage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Labor Standards Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry shills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a very simple question. What do you think minimum wage should be? Meet-The-Shill: J. Randall MacDonald Senior Vice President, IBM Human Resources Armonk, NY Richard L. Alfred Partner, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP Boston, MA Nobumichi Hara Senior Vice President, Human Capital Goodwill of Central Arizona Phoenix, AZ And the woman who answered: Judy Conti Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Story of Our Economy: Why Our Standard of Living Has Stalled Out</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/29/the-real-story-of-our-economy-why-our-standard-of-living-has-stalled-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/29/the-real-story-of-our-economy-why-our-standard-of-living-has-stalled-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than a quarter century after WWII the fruits of America&#8217;s productivity were shared with average working people, year in and year out. Not anymore. By Les Leopold Author, “The Looting of America” Do public sector workers earn more than private sector workers? Who cares? This boneheaded question has us fighting over the crumbs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Starve? Where Did That Value Come From?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/19/let-them-starve-where-did-that-value-come-from/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/19/let-them-starve-where-did-that-value-come-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Living Wage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carl Davidson Author and writer for Beaver County Blue Blog At a time when all of us are learning the ongoing value of &#8220;an injury to one is an injury to all,&#8221; I’ve had a little tussle this week in the Beaver County Times Online with some Tea Party sympathizers who would drive a [...]]]></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>
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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>Beck Shills for Chamber</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/15/beck-shills-for-chamber/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/15/beck-shills-for-chamber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Right-wing radio zealot Glenn Beck apparently has decided that all that foreign money coming into the Chamber of Commerce’s kitty just isn’t enough to buy an election. Last week, he announced he was donating $10,000 to the Chamber and urged his listeners to chip in, too. Beck is the same guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fight Tea Party&#8217;s Faux Populism</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/05/how-to-fight-tea-partys-faux-populism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/05/how-to-fight-tea-partys-faux-populism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sherrod Brown U.S. Senator, D-Ohio Progressives are an impatient bunch. We fight for people who have waited too long already — for health care, for educational opportunity, for jobs to keep them in the middle class. But for generations, conservatives have appealed to fear to protect the privileged and preserve the status quo — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Low-Wage Future</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/17/america%e2%80%99s-low-wage-future/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/17/america%e2%80%99s-low-wage-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jack Metzgar Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago British historian E.H. Carr once said something to the effect that while no serious scholar makes up the facts, they all choose which facts “to put on stage.”  The problem of cultural bias is that there are way too many facts to give [...]]]></description>
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