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		<title>Lawmakers urge Criminal Charges in Upper Big Branch Disaster</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/26/lawmakers-urge-criminal-charges-in-upper-big-branch-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/26/lawmakers-urge-criminal-charges-in-upper-big-branch-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice must “go up Massey’s chain of command as far as possible” and hold accountable those individuals responsible for the deaths of 29 coals miners at Massey Energy’s Big Branch (W.Va.) mine in 2010, a group of lawmakers urged Attorney General Eric Holder. In a letter to Holder from Rep. George Miller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Vote Big Cuts to Jobless Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/republicans-vote-big-cuts-to-jobless-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/republicans-vote-big-cuts-to-jobless-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[House Republicans voted (234-193) Wednesday to cut more than in half the number of weeks jobless workers can collect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits next year. The bill also cuts pay for public employees, cuts preventive health services, reduces premium assistance for low- and middle-income individuals buying health insurance and raises premiums for many Medicare beneficiaries. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Economists Call for Higher Taxes on Mega-Rich</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/top-economists-call-for-higher-taxes-on-mega-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/top-economists-call-for-higher-taxes-on-mega-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CEO pay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study by a team of top economists finds that if the tax rate for the highest-income Americans was pegged at—drum roll please—83 percent—it wouldn’t impact anyone but the “mega-rich.” When Ronald Reagan and his Republican successors began three decades of hacking away at the taxes the rich paid—once as high as 80 percent—they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Obscene Executive Pay Spark the Financial Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/did-obscene-executive-pay-spark-the-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/14/did-obscene-executive-pay-spark-the-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CEO pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elijah Cummings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard all the reasons given for the economic implosion of 2008: the bursting of the housing bubble, the risky investments of financial firms, the use of incomprehensible financial instruments as get-rich-quick-schemes—all of them the result of a massive agenda of across-the-board deregulation pushed by Republican lawmakers since the 1980s. But at the root of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make it a Union-Made Holiday</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/11/make-it-a-union-made-holiday/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/11/make-it-a-union-made-holiday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Made in the USA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give union-made gifts  Did you know all Hasbro toys and games including Monopoly, G.I.Joe and My Little Pony are made by union “elves”? Also look for union-made household items, clothing, shoes, even espresso machines and other popular small kitchen appliances.  Check out this UAW Consumer Buying Guide for more ideas. Is the iPhone 4S on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing the Rich Does Create Jobs, Says Venture Capitalist</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/07/taxing-the-rich-does-create-jobs-says-venture-capitalist/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/07/taxing-the-rich-does-create-jobs-says-venture-capitalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[99%]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Hanauer is another multimillionaire who says its time to tax the rich. The venture capitalist, who has launched more than 20 companies and is an original investor in Amazon.com, says Republicans are completely wrong when they claim that raising taxes on the rich—the so-called job creators—would kill job growth because “Rich people like me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Unemployment Aid Sets to Expire, Jobless Worker Says: &#8220;All of Us Need to Stand Together&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/as-unemployment-aid-sets-to-expire-jobless-worker-says-all-of-us-need-to-stand-together/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/as-unemployment-aid-sets-to-expire-jobless-worker-says-all-of-us-need-to-stand-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Terry Maile’s supervisor called her into a conference room with all of her co-workers to hear the news: It was their last day of employment at Level 3 Communications in Pittsburgh. That was it. The jobs were gone to India. “I couldn’t stop crying,” said Maile, a divorced mother of one, who until that moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right to Work &#8211; Real Facts About Right to Work Laws</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/right-to-work-real-facts-about-right-to-work-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/29/right-to-work-real-facts-about-right-to-work-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professors from Western Michigan University discuss the devastating effects &#8212; including lower wages and higher poverty &#8212; of so-called &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; laws.]]></description>
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		<title>NATCA: Why Air Travel Is Safer</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/27/natca-why-air-travel-is-safer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/27/natca-why-air-travel-is-safer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air traffic controllers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re getting ready to board a plane home after Thanksgiving or still fretting about safety in the crowded holiday skies for the upcoming holidays, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA)—the people who guide you home—offer five reasons to feel better about air travel. Here they are in a nutshell, and click here for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working America Offers Political ‘Turkey Talk Tips’ for a Smooth Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/23/working-america-offers-political-%e2%80%98turkey-talk-tips%e2%80%99-for-a-smooth-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/23/working-america-offers-political-%e2%80%98turkey-talk-tips%e2%80%99-for-a-smooth-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom says don’t talk politics at big family gatherings, especially with Uncle Earl. But our friends at Working America are offering a unique guide on how to talk about today’s biggest political topic, the Occupy Wall Street/99 Percent movement, without sending Uncle Earl into one of his legendary fits. Working America’s Turkey Talk Guide [...]]]></description>
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