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		<title>Elizabeth Warren: A Senator for Everyone</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/27/elizabeth-warren-a-senator-for-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s first campaign ad.]]></description>
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		<title>In Senate vote, a win for the middle class and a rebuke to China</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/03/in-senate-vote-a-win-for-the-middle-class-and-a-rebuke-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/03/in-senate-vote-a-win-for-the-middle-class-and-a-rebuke-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that our trade with China has been bad for the American middle class has finally reached the U.S. Senate. On Monday, the Senate will take up legislation that would impose tariffs on Chinese goods so long as China depresses the value of its currency. Despite the partisan polarization that grinds lawmaking to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Republicans Want to Raise the Deficit?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/22/why-do-republicans-want-to-raise-the-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/22/why-do-republicans-want-to-raise-the-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Sen. Bernie Sanders Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders gave the following speech on the floor of the United States Senate. &#8220;Mr. President&#8221; refers to the president of the Senate. Each and every day, it gets harder and harder to listen to my Republican friends who race to the Senate floor telling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs Should Come First</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/03/jobs-should-come-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Trumka President, AFL-CIO Members of Congress who flat-out refuse to vote to create jobs, stop layoffs and help the jobless should be ashamed of themselves. As we saw in the job numbers released today, this economy has a long way to go before it is creating jobs on the scale that is needed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Jobs, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/03/its-the-jobs-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/03/its-the-jobs-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tula Connell AFL-CIO Managing Editor So the U.S. Senate ran off on vacation and left the House to pass a jobs bill that the august body won’t consider for another week, when up to 1.2 million jobless workers will have lost their unemployment insurance (UI) because the Senate failed to act. Nice. Expect to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bunning Put a Face on Obstructionist, Mean-Spirited Republican Party</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/03/bunning-put-a-face-on-obstructionist-mean-spirited-republican-party/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/03/bunning-put-a-face-on-obstructionist-mean-spirited-republican-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Leo W. Gerard USW International President  Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who single-handedly delayed unemployment benefits for 400,000 desperate Americans and forced an unnecessary furlough of another 2,000, should be a figure regarded with wonderment. The awesome power he held in his hands! The utter disregard for vulnerable Americans he exhibited while wielding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Republicants&#8221; deny sky is falling</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/02/14/republicants-deny-sky-is-falling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/02/14/republicants-deny-sky-is-falling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President The sky is falling. For the average Working Joe or Jane in America, it is anyway. Unemployment is at 7.6 percent and rising. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that there are 4.1 job seekers now for every opening. The mortgage delinquency rate set another record last quarter, and foreclosures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This moment screams for boldness, not piddling plans for Obama&#8217;s first 100 days</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/10/this-moment-screams-for-boldness-not-piddling-plans-for-obama%e2%80%99s-first-100-days/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/10/this-moment-screams-for-boldness-not-piddling-plans-for-obama%e2%80%99s-first-100-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Within hours of Barack Obama’s election, naysayers chastened caution. Don’t go too far, they inveighed. Build trust slowly with restrained, moderate, and gradual actions, they admonished. In other words: Start with piddling plans. Basically, they want to abort hope &#8212; kill it before it has a chance. That is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This presidential race is green; not black and white</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/08/26/this-election-is-green-not-black-and-white/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/08/26/this-election-is-green-not-black-and-white/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Presidential race While some want to paint this year’s presidential race in black and white, for middle class America, it’s all about the green. Greenbacks. Team colors are clearly visible: The Republicans’ – green and gold. That’s obvious when their nominee, John McCain, is one of the richest men [...]]]></description>
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