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		<title>Clocking Out: Choose Your Own Jobs Numbers Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mic check! Protesters take on a Morgan Stanley shareholder meeting. What Romney’s budget proposals would mean. Romney’s budget speech yesterday “resides outside of, and completely at odds with” reality. “I don&#8217;t think Mitt Romney is stupid. I do think Romney is operating from the assumption that voters are stupid.” Karl Rove’s dark-money group puts another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Modest Proposal for Pete Peterson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, political leaders of both parties and media heavyweights convened to flatter and tout the preferences of one very influential man. Meet Pete Peterson, the man who has made it a personal crusade to roll back decades of retirement security and induce panic about deficits and debt in Washington politicians. And when we say “made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/16/a-modest-proposal-for-pete-peterson/</link>
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		<title>Clocking Out: Filibusting My Chops Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now more than ever, Americans over 55 face a challenging job hunt. The conservative judicial activism of the Roberts Supreme Court. Inconvenient truths about the national debt. Investing in kids early pays off in the long run. Food stamps&#8211;under attack by House Republicans&#8211;are extremely effective. Reminder: the stimulus really did work. How earned sick days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/15/clocking-out-filibusting-my-chops-edition/</link>
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		<title>Since 1995, Zillionaires Have Received Biggest Tax Breaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: epi.org via Working America on Pinterest Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog There&#8217;s always a lot of noise on campaign trails about cutting taxes. But as the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) points out, the real question is: Whose taxes? A new report by EPI finds that since 1995, the wealthiest of the wealthy in this country have gotten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/15/since-1995-zillionaires-have-received-biggest-tax-breaks/</link>
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		<title>The Bigger Story Behind JP Morgan’s Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When one man loses $2 billion, it’s bound to attract attention. So it’s no surprise that the talk of the financial world is the ten-digit loss that hit investment firm JP Morgan Chase last week. The best explanation of the complicated way that JP Morgan lost billions comes from Heidi Moore, the New York bureau [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/15/the-bigger-story-behind-jp-morgan%e2%80%99s-loss/</link>
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		<title>Clocking Out: Dealbreakers Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Reich is right: the loss of public morality is the problem we need to address. At Bain Capital, Romney discovered a new source of profit: breaking the deal between companies and their employees. Our new Gilded Age is good for the 1%, but it’s even better for the 0.1%. Krugman tells us how the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/14/clocking-out-dealbreakers-edition/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota Shows Why Elections Matter for Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flashback to November 2010: As Republican governors win victories across the country, the race in Minnesota comes down to a nail biter. Eventually, Democrat Mark Dayton wins the governorship, beating Republican Tom Emmer by just under 9,000 votes, or 0.42 percent of votes cast. Working America organizers and canvassers were part of the ground game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/14/minnesota-shows-why-elections-matter-for-workers/</link>
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		<title>Clocking In: Shipping Up to Boston Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unions Rock: Letter Carriers doing their part to “stamp out hunger.” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka talks about JP Morgan Chase’s huge losses. Romney campaigns with negligent West Virginia coal mine owner Bob Murray. Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin finds a despicable way to avoid taxes. #RickScottFail #43: Florida governor’s chief of staff resigns amid corruption investigation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/14/clocking-in-shipping-up-to-boston-edition/</link>
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		<title>Clocking Out: Your Mom&#8217;s So Great Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Scott Walker said some things that could cost him his office. Most workers live in fear of losing their pensions. Ex-Congressmen who become lobbyists, though, are safe and secure. When “repeal and replace” becomes “repeal and, like, whatever.” #RickScottFail #42: Florida governor’s “jobs czar” disconnected from reality. A great explanation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/12/clocking-out-your-moms-so-great-edition/</link>
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		<title>Ohio HB 194 Tries to Turn Back the Clock on Voting Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post by Sylvia Bly, a Cleveland Working America member. Recently, I went to a U.S. Senate field hearing in Cleveland about House Bill 194.  I heard arguments for and against HB 194, a bill that’s a real stinker to me. Its main objectives are to make it much harder to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/11/ohio-hb-194-tries-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-voting-rights/</link>
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		<title>Former Coal Miner Out-Mobilizes Millionaire in Big Win for W.Va. Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post from Nora Fredrickson, reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog Can a former coal miner win an election against a millionaire? Just ask Clyde McKnight. A retired coal miner from southern West Virginia, he worked for more than 30 years in the mines and currently serves as the South Central [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/11/former-coal-miner-out-mobilizes-millionaire-in-big-win-for-w-va-workers/</link>
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		<title>House Republicans Vote to Demolish Much-Needed Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The debt-ceiling deal and the Supercommittee were unnecessary exercises in political posturing, but they were also a game with real consequences for real people. Now the House Republicans have used the opportunity to push broad and devastating cuts to federal programs. Yesterday, House Republicans pushed through (by a 218-199 vote) a bill to override the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/11/house-republicans-vote-to-demolish-much-needed-programs/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin Recall Targets Have Strong Ties to ALEC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 5th, voters in Wisconsin will go to the polls in an historic recall election, where they will decide who will serve as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and State Senator in several districts for the rest of the current term. Nearly all the elected officials targeted by recall, who are in danger of being removed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/11/wisconsin-recall-targets-have-strong-ties-to-alec/</link>
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		<title>Clocking Out: One Person, One or Maybe Zero Votes Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A taxing day at the polls&#8220;: A great cartoon on voter suppression from Jen Sorenson. A big win for nurses at 10 Florida hospitals, who won their first collectively-bargained contract. States with strong unions have better economic mobility. &#8220;You can basically throw a dart off of a building and hit someone with a foreclosure horror [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/10/clocking-out-one-person-one-or-maybe-zero-votes-edition/</link>
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		<title>Republican House Ignores Jobless Workers, Focuses on Miniature Horses, Census</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog The Census was good enough for Thomas Jefferson. But apparently not so for today’s House Republicans. Yesterday, they passed, by 232 to 190, a measure to cut the American Community Survey, conducted annually as part of the U.S. Census. Republicans “attacked the survey as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/10/republican-house-ignores-jobless-workers-focuses-on-miniature-horses-census/</link>
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