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		<title>Clocking Out: The (Privatized) Deer Hunter Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the radar, Scott Walker is selling out Wisconsin deer hunters. 30 billionaires are major donors to a Romney-backing superPAC. The Republican War on Working Women isn’t in your imagination. Look at the evidence. Fox News isn’t a problem because of its viewpoint. It’s a problem because of its constant, deliberate dishonesty. (It’s worse than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/22/clocking-out-the-privatized-deer-hunter-edition/</link>
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		<title>After Cutting School Funding, Pennsylvania Republicans Are Going After Teachers Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Education Committee in Pennsylvania is planning to fast-track a bill that could end collective bargaining rights for school employees. Here’s how they’re doing it. First, in his first two budgets, Governor Tom Corbett and his allies cut almost a billion dollars from public education in Pennsylvania. Like his corporate-backed brethren Scott Walker and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/22/after-cutting-school-funding-pennsylvania-republicans-are-going-after-teachers-themselves/</link>
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		<title>Not Fast Enough? Michigan Republicans Hurting Working Families With Immediate Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Michigan Republican controlled legislature has been passing hundreds of privatization bills, while enjoying little attention from the press. Don’t they want credit for all their “hard work?” Or is there something they don’t want working families to find out? 546 of the bills that passed beginning in 2011, have been additionally “assigned (bill number) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/22/not-fast-enough-michigan-republicans-hurting-working-families-with-immediate-effect/</link>
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		<title>Clocking Out: Chutzpah Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The definition of “chutzpah”: Medicare-slasher Paul Ryan insists Obama would bring about “European-style austerity.” With contract negotiations pending, Maine Gov. Paul LePage is still blustering on about how terrible he thinks public employees are. “The real problem with Romney isn’t what he did at Bain. It’s what he didn’t seem to learn from it.” Middle-class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/21/clocking-out-chutzpah-edition/</link>
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		<title>Student Debt Hurts Our Communities, Our Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a post by Isaiah Toney, the Student Labor Action Project coordinator in Washington, D.C., and a senior at the George Washington University. Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog. When I finish classes in August of 2012, I will have something like $78,000 in student debt. That&#8217;s about three times the national average, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/21/student-debt-hurts-our-communities-our-nation/</link>
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		<title>Punching In: Get Off My Plane Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We wish Harrison Ford was here to deal with the ALEC corporations who have taken Wisconsin hostage. Related: Does anyone have a thinner skin than the Koch Brothers? Also related: New documents show the political operations that got $55 million in previously-undisclosed Koch money. Holla! Working America canvassers are featured in this awesome TNR piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/21/punching-in-get-off-my-plane-edition/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2012/05/16/clocking-out-choose-your-own-jobs-numbers-edition/</link>
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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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