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	<title>USW Blog &#187; President Obama</title>
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		<title>How a Little Bit of Good Economic News Can Be Bad for the President</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/11/how-a-little-bit-of-good-economic-news-can-be-bad-for-the-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago the unemployment rate was 9.9 percent. Now it&#8217;s 8.5 percent. At first blush that&#8217;s good news for the president. Actually it may not be. Voters pay more attention to the direction the economy is moving than to how bad or good it is. So if the positive trend continues in the months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burying Your Victories: What if Obama Taxed the Rich But Never Told Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/10/burying-your-victories-what-if-obama-taxed-the-rich-but-never-told-anyone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/10/burying-your-victories-what-if-obama-taxed-the-rich-but-never-told-anyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know Obama’s health care bill contained a $20 billion a year tax on the richest Americans? I didn’t until I stumbled onto a mention of this the other day, although writing about politics is my life and I was angry at the loss of a national public option. I asked a dozen other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recess Appointments: Backlash to Blackmail</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/10/recess-appointments-backlash-to-blackmail/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/10/recess-appointments-backlash-to-blackmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay roll tax break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pro-forma sessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican obstruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, President Obama finally internalized and implemented the advice of American parents on dealing with bullies. He stood his ground. He called the GOP bluff on the payroll tax. And they backed down. He recess appointed four officials, defying GOP attempts to thwart service to American workers and borrowers. Apparently, it’s a new day in Washington, one in which Democrats, who control the presidency and the majority in the U.S. Senate, are fed up and not going to take GOP bullying and blackmail anymore.]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Have Shut Down The NLRB. The President Must Act!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/03/republicans-have-shut-down-the-nlrb-the-president-must-act/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/03/republicans-have-shut-down-the-nlrb-the-president-must-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cengel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Labor Relations Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of now an agency of our government, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), is effectively shut down, unable to do its job. This is a &#8220;nullification&#8221; by Republicans, of laws that protect workers and companies, in exchange for campaign help from the 1%. They are simply obstructing, blocking appointments in order to keep the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions, Political Resolutions and Damned Lies</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/03/resolutions-political-resolutions-and-damned-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/03/resolutions-political-resolutions-and-damned-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract on America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract with America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pledge to Destroy America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one fusses when New Year’s Resolutions aren’t kept. Wild resolutions offered by presidential candidates are taken with a grain of salt. But damned lies are different and dangerous. Damned lies subvert trust in the political system, which needs the faith of the electorate to function. Damned lies may be an integral part of Republican strategy since the GOP hates government of the people by the people and hopes to shrink it small enough to drown in a bathtub.]]></description>
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		<title>An Offer to the President</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/16/an-offer-to-the-president/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/16/an-offer-to-the-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glass-Steagall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Reelection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. President, we heard what you said last week in Kansas &#8212; about the dangers to our economy and democracy of the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top. We agree. And many of us are prepared to work our hearts out to get you reelected &#8212; as long as you commit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Are Greater Together</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/13/americans-are-greater-together/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/13/americans-are-greater-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orrin Hatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osawatomie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Wellstone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The GOP thwarts regulatory agencies in order to enforce its “you’re on your own” philosophy. That is, each citizen, like an island, fends for himself in a world where the invisible hand of the market serves as regulator. Democrats believe something very different. They espouse the principles set out by President Teddy Roosevelt in his 1910 speech in Osawatomie, Kan., and echoed by President Obama in his address there last week. That is America and Americans are better when citizens work together and watch out for each other, that cooperating invigorates the individual, the economy and the nation, and that primacy is in people and profit is subordinate.]]></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>Obama: Giving Everyone a Fair Shot</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/09/obama-giving-everyone-a-fair-shot/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/09/obama-giving-everyone-a-fair-shot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal opportunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his speech at Osawatomie, Kan., President Obama says all Americans want and deserve equal opportunity, a fair shot, as he put it.]]></description>
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		<title>Does GOP Really Want to Increase Taxes on the Middle Class?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/02/does-gop-really-want-to-increase-taxes-on-the-middle-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/02/does-gop-really-want-to-increase-taxes-on-the-middle-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenysian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payroll tax holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senate Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Senate considers an extension of the payroll tax holiday, the big question is: why in the world would Republicans in Congress consider raising middle class taxes by $1,000 to $1,500 per household in the midst of an economic downturn and an election year? This is a particularly vexing question when you recall the [...]]]></description>
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