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		<title>Another Washington Post Social Security Mistake</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/03/another-washington-post-social-security-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Baker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See if you can spot the big mistake (giving them the benefit of the doubt) in this Washington Post story: Payroll tax cut raises worries about Social Security’s future funding: This year, the Social Security system projects that it will pay out $46 billion more in benefits than it will collect in cash. It made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If That&#8217;s a Super Committee, What Does One with Normal Powers Look Like?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/15/if-thats-a-super-committee-what-does-one-with-normal-powers-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/15/if-thats-a-super-committee-what-does-one-with-normal-powers-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super committee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post had a good update on this issue but I wanted to clarify one point that I think has been muddied in much analysis. The deficit-reduction super committee could always pull a rabbit out of a hat, I guess, but the likelihood of anything but gridlock has been low from the beginning. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Is Only Part of the GOP War Against Unions</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/25/wisconsin-is-only-part-of-the-gop-war-against-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/25/wisconsin-is-only-part-of-the-gop-war-against-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lafe Solomon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect Wisconsin is just the tip of the iceberg. The Republican war on unions goes far beyond Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s attempt to end collective-bargaining rights for public employees in his state or Gov. John Kasich&#8217;s effort to do the same in Ohio. For a more comprehensive view of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Days Until Deficit Commission Concludes: Time to Speak Out</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/29/two-days-until-deficit-commission-concludes-time-to-speak-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/29/two-days-until-deficit-commission-concludes-time-to-speak-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erskine Bowles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Scher Executive editor of LiberalOasis.com The White House deficit commission is expected to vote in two days &#8212; on Wednesday, Dec. 1 &#8212; on a final report of recommendations. And it will likely not be much different than the draft released by its co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Bowles said last week: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only $4.2 Billion to Buy This Election?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/29/only-4-2-billion-to-buy-this-election/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/29/only-4-2-billion-to-buy-this-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Pharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaign Finance Reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance companies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley This, from the Washington Post&#8216;s conservative pundit George Will: Total spending by parties, campaigns and issue-advocacy groups concerning every office from county clerks to U.S. senators may reach a record $4.2 billion in this two-year cycle. That is about what Americans spend in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Ends Meet in Coin-Operated Washington</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/06/making-ends-meet-in-coin-operated-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/06/making-ends-meet-in-coin-operated-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Winship Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS (With apologies to the late, great Damon Runyon) So I am in Washington, DC, our nation&#8217;s capital, admiring the buildings and the fine monuments and so forth, when I run into my very dear friend Gorilla Bagsley, whom I have not had the pleasure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Choice in November: A Congress That Works With the President Or Doesn’t Let the Presidency Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/24/the-choice-in-november-a-congress-that-works-with-the-president-or-doesn%e2%80%99t-let-the-presidency-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/24/the-choice-in-november-a-congress-that-works-with-the-president-or-doesn%e2%80%99t-let-the-presidency-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC News poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midterm Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obstructionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Scher Executive editor of LiberalOasis.com The country may be cynical. The country may be dissatisfied. The country may be angry. But the country does not want to stop Barack Obama. An ABC News poll this week found that: &#8220;For all their economic gripes, 52 percent of Americans say they&#8217;d rather have President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handcuffs for Wall Street, Not Happy Talk</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/13/handcuffs-for-wall-street-not-happy-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/13/handcuffs-for-wall-street-not-happy-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abacus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chrystia Freeland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet; Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future The Washington Post has published a very silly op-ed by Chrystia Freeland accusing President Barack Obama of unfairly &#8220;demonizing&#8221; Wall Street. Freeland wants to see Obama tone down his rhetoric and play nice with executives in pursuit of a harmonious economic recovery. The trouble is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason to Break up Big Wall Street Banks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/04/another-reason-to-break-up-big-wall-street-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/04/another-reason-to-break-up-big-wall-street-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author Ever wonder how Wall Street bankers manage to make tens &#8212; and sometimes hundreds &#8212; of millions of dollars? How do people who really don&#8217;t produce anything manage to siphon such gigantic sums from the pockets of the people who produce goods and services &#8212; who actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boehner Trade Plan: Go Back to Disaster</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/29/boehner-trade-plan-go-back-to-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/29/boehner-trade-plan-go-back-to-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Johnson By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) gave a speech this week describing his party&#8217;s positions on jobs and the economy going into the fall election. Summary: Our economic policies destroyed the country’s economy and millions of lives, but it made a few of my [...]]]></description>
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