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		<title>Iraq-Afghanistan Veterans Unemployment:  A Quiet Crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/23/iraq-afghanistan-veterans-unemployment-a-quiet-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/23/iraq-afghanistan-veterans-unemployment-a-quiet-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a decade ago, some 2.3 million military members have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands more continue to deploy leaving their families at home while they serve our country overseas. But when these brave men and women return home, many face a new enemy: unemployment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does President Obama Want to Impose a Crushing Burden on Our Children?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/13/does-president-obama-want-to-impose-a-crushing-burden-on-our-children/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/13/does-president-obama-want-to-impose-a-crushing-burden-on-our-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry deficit fanatics, this one has nothing to do with the cost of the stimulus or the deficits run-up during the Obama years. We&#8217;re talking real money here. We&#8217;re talking about plans to raise the age of Medicare eligibility to 67. To deficit hawks everywhere this is a great way to save the government money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: A Voice on the Job is Everyone’s Right</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/06/obama-a-voice-on-the-job-is-everyone%e2%80%99s-right/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/06/obama-a-voice-on-the-job-is-everyone%e2%80%99s-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:00:00 +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[Labor Day 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama spent Labor Day in Detroit speaking with working families in an event sponsored by the Detroit Central Labor Council. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other top union leaders joined Obama, who asserted his strong support for workers’ freedom to seek a voice at work through a union. And I want everybody here to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The President’s Bold Jobs Bill (Maybe)</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/18/the-president%e2%80%99s-bold-jobs-bill-maybe/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/18/the-president%e2%80%99s-bold-jobs-bill-maybe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:00:14 +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[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reich]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says he’ll be proposing a jobs bill in September – and if Republicans don’t go along he’ll fight for it through Election Day (or beyond). That’s a start. But read the small print and all he’s talked about so far is extending the payroll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress, Debt &amp; More on the Budget Deal</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/03/congress-debt-more-on-the-budget-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/03/congress-debt-more-on-the-budget-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy]]></description>
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		<title>Save Us from the &#8216;Business Guy&#8217; Candidates</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/02/save-us-from-the-business-guy-candidates/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/02/save-us-from-the-business-guy-candidates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP Hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pataskala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some things just drive you nuts. Take Mitt Romney. Yesterday, July 28, the GOP&#8217;s presidential wannabe toured Screen Machine, a factory in Pataskala, Ohio, just outside Columbus. The plant makes heavy construction equipment, rock crushers to be exact. Romney and the owners, Doug and Steve Cohen, staged a typical photo-op. Mitt took the occasion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Spotlights Americans United Ad &#8220;Reckless&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/02/cnn-spotlights-americans-united-ad-reckless/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/02/cnn-spotlights-americans-united-ad-reckless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The GOP can&#8217;t come up with an original ad concept?]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit Reduction Requires Shared Sacrifice: Will the President Stand Tall?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/03/deficit-reduction-requires-shared-sacrifice-will-the-president-stand-tall-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/03/deficit-reduction-requires-shared-sacrifice-will-the-president-stand-tall-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>May</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eficit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bernie Sanders Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Congress and the White House are now focused on how we deal with our huge deficit &#8212; a crisis brought about over the last 10 years by two wars, tax breaks for the rich, the Wall Street bailout and a prescription drug program &#8212; all unpaid for. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unconscionable Silence</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/26/8933/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/26/8933/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rick Sloan Communications Director, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Where are labor&#8217;s allies? Where are Israel&#8217;s friends? Where, exactly, are the supporters of civil rights, immigrant rights and women&#8217;s rights? Each core Democratic constituency is under attack. Many of the attacks are vicious and unrelenting. Some are presented as nuanced disagreements, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch of Class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/19/touch-of-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/04/19/touch-of-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect President Obama did two things in his Wednesday address at George Washington University that he has been loath to do throughout his presidency. He spoke like a progressive partisan. And he spoke of that great unmentionable in centrist Democratic policies &#8212; the injuries of class. [...]]]></description>
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