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		<title>The House is on Fire</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/01/the-house-is-on-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Center for Working-Class Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jack Metzgar
Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago
A few weeks ago, Charlie Rose facilitated a discussion about the perils of the U.S. national debt among a thoughtful, articulate group of one politician, two businessmen, and two economists.  Except for a brief discussion of the bond market, I was able to understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Deal!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/16/no-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/16/no-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Pearce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Trumka
President, AFL-CIO
Senate Republican obstructionists are working overtime to block the interests of working people. Today we hear the White House and Senate have cut a deal with Republicans that will keep President Obama&#8217;s nominees off the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for even longer.
The NLRB&#8217;s job is to protect workers&#8217; rights &#8212; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-Faced Anti-Obama Rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/01/two-faced-anti-obama-rhetoric/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/01/two-faced-anti-obama-rhetoric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maureen Dowd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=2137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
If you watched the President address the Republican caucus,
you had a chance to see Republican legislators proudly and
enthusiastically introducing their children to President Obama.
So much for anti-Obama rhetoric. But it raises the question:
If Republicans can take so much pride in our President, why
do they work so hard to pursuade the rest of us not to?
Here&#8217;s a link to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Obama Middle Class Help. But What About Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/27/good-obama-middle-class-help-but-what-about-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/27/good-obama-middle-class-help-but-what-about-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Policy Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of the Union]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=2097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Lotke
Research Director at the Campaign for America&#8217;s Future
The White House announced its economic initiatives for middle class families, described as a preview of the State of the Union Address. They&#8217;re all good ideas and I hope every one of them passes. But something is missing.
Mostly, the new initiatives don&#8217;t create jobs. Doubling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/11/19/hell-if-d-c-didn%e2%80%99t-offshore-849-million-in-stimulus-for-windmills-already/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/11/19/hell-if-d-c-didn%e2%80%99t-offshore-849-million-in-stimulus-for-windmills-already/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By Leo W. Gerard
USW International President 
It turns out a Texas windmill farm developer’s request last month for nearly half a billion in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn’t rank first on the audacity scale.
Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of Americans who are unemployed, it doesn’t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing Only the Rich CAN Pay for Everything</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/01/taxing-only-the-rich-can-pay-for-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/01/taxing-only-the-rich-can-pay-for-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Center for Working-Class Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class and economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistribution of wealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
By Jack Metzgar
Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago
It&#8217;s time for everybody who wants to say anything about &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; and taxes to tell the rest of us their income class.  I live in one of the 13.5 million households with a six-figure income between $100,000 and $200,000.  I could afford to give back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Good for General Motors Is. . . Never Mind</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/16/whats-good-for-general-motors-is-never-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/16/whats-good-for-general-motors-is-never-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage
Co-Director Campaign for America&#8217;s Future
Is the Obama Administration saving General Motors or is it saving auto industry jobs in the US? Is it saving GM as an American brand or GM as an American manufacturer?
These aren&#8217;t academic questions. General Motors, which has been buttressed by $15.2 billion in loans from taxpayers with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: Populism is popular</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/04/24/newsflash-populism-is-popular/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/04/24/newsflash-populism-is-popular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG bonuses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Populism Proves Popular]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
By David Sirota
Author of &#8220;The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt&#8221;
In 2006, journalist Christopher Hayes wrote a little-noticed article for In These Times magazine about a proposal in Oregon to crack down on predatory lending. The initiative had become so popular that conservative legislators supported it fearing that if it were put on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning deficits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/26/learning-deficits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/26/learning-deficits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficits]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Borosage
Co-Director Campaign for America&#8217;s Future
Will Obama&#8217;s transformative budget survive? As his press conference last night illustrated, it runs a serious risk of drowning in a swamp of cant.
The budget is getting strafed by politicians in both parties for its deficits and debt. (the deficit is the annual shortfall between revenue and spending; debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s next gauntlet: Reviving the middle class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/05/obama%e2%80%99s-next-gauntlet-reviving-the-middle-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/05/obama%e2%80%99s-next-gauntlet-reviving-the-middle-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage
Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future
It ain&#8217;t easy. No use jokin&#8217;. Everything&#8217;s broken.&#8221;
&#8211;Bob Dylan
We can&#8217;t go back to the old economy. That economy &#8212; marked by booms and busts, Gilded Age inequality, declining wages, growing household debts, and unsustainable trade deficits &#8212; didn&#8217;t work very well for most Americans. President Obama is faced [...]]]></description>
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