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		<title>Biden Gets China</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/04/biden-gets-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China-US Strategic And Ecnonomic Dialogue]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Donilon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A senior White House official has confirmed that Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead on the administration&#8217;s next phase China policy. While the Departments of State and Treasury have held important functional roles in conducting the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings, raising the bilateral status of US-China relations with ongoing meetings between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newt&#8217;s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/15/newts-tax-plan-and-why-his-polls-rise-the-more-outrageous-he-becomes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/15/newts-tax-plan-and-why-his-polls-rise-the-more-outrageous-he-becomes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget deficit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reducing The Deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness. Every dollar estimate I&#8217;m about to share with you comes from the independent, non-partisan Tax Policy Center &#8212; a group whose estimates are used by almost everyone in Washington regardless of political persuasion. First off, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does a Supercommittee Die?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/22/how-does-a-supercommittee-die/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/22/how-does-a-supercommittee-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Committee Deal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Supercommittee Deadline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supercommittee Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supercommittee Failure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not with a bang but a whimper. Not a surprise, but disheartening on many levels. Let us count the ways: Dysfunctionality: The deficit reduction committee grew out of the debt ceiling debacle, and any child of that process was doomed to disappoint. It&#8217;s yet another example of legislators turning to a process solution as opposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Takes the Offensive on Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/09/obama-takes-the-offensive-on-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/09/obama-takes-the-offensive-on-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Jobs Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s speech to Congress tonight reset the political battle lines and put Progressives back on the offensive. The speech included provisions that Republicans in Congress may actually agree to pass &#8212; like continuing the payroll tax holiday that if allowed to lapse would affect the paychecks of virtually every American worker. But it also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Trade War? We&#8217;re Already In One!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/29/avoid-trade-war-were-already-in-one/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/29/avoid-trade-war-were-already-in-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever protectionists like myself demand that the U.S. government do something to stand up for America in global trade, we are shouted down with the stern admonition, &#8220;You&#8217;ll start a trade war.&#8221; I wish. The reality is that nobody in America is going to start a trade war, for the simple reason that we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suppressing the Vote: New ID Laws Combat an Imaginary Crime Wave</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/15/suppressing-the-vote-new-id-laws-combat-an-imaginary-crime-wave/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/15/suppressing-the-vote-new-id-laws-combat-an-imaginary-crime-wave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From In These Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP Dirty Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter ID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter suppression]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in America, but this imaginary crime still serves to justify a wave of onerous new voter registration laws—often requiring a state-issued photo ID—that Republican legislators have rapidly spread across the nation. The implications for the 2012 elections are huge. “The overall idea is pretty obvious,” says Frances Fox Piven, author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representative Moran (and 25 Others): Conned by Concord Coalition</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/24/10211/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/24/10211/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concord Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Moran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Town Hall Meetings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening I attended an event sponsored by my U.S. Representative, Jim Moran (D-VA). I accepted an invitation I received from his email list to a community forum called &#8220;Principles &#38; Priorities: How would you balance the budget?&#8221; I&#8217;m no dummy and I was expecting political theater, but I thought at least the theater would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of the Wrecking-Ball Right</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/18/10094/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/18/10094/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Limit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I debated a conservative Republican who insisted the best way to revive the American economy was to shrink the size of government. When I asked him to explain his logic he said, simply, &#8220;government is the source of all our problems.&#8221; When I noted government spending had brought the economy out of the previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Swamp of Washington and the Morass of the Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/14/the-swamp-of-washington-and-the-morass-of-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/14/the-swamp-of-washington-and-the-morass-of-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joblessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Washington was built on a swamp. In the summer, temperatures can reach over 100 degrees &#8212; as they did over the last few days when I made the rounds of Washington Democrats, repeatedly asking why no bold jobs plan is emerging. Here&#8217;s a sample of their responses: &#8220;Dead in the water. We&#8217;ll be lucky if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Up the Banks: I Did It!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/14/9380/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/14/9380/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Financial Protection Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[too big to fail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the debate heats up over Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I took a step out on my own. I got a divorce. I am no longer a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank. First Wells Fargo acquired the bank I&#8217;d been banking in. Then Wells Fargo acquired my mortgage. [...]]]></description>
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