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<title>Obama, Congress weigh options on the economy</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206977330</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  both the Clinton and Bush administrations. John Irons: Research and Policy Director at the Economic Policy Institute. ...
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<title>Facing a brave new economy</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206890206</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 14:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a flood everyone gets swept away,&quot; said Lawrence Mishel, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. Few can argue that there are thousands of worthless degrees out there  ...
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<title>State makes economic progress</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206855895</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 10:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  being hurt by the flight of jobs as well as people. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Louisiana has lost 15,900 jobs to China since 2001. EPI says 2,400 jobs were  ...
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<title>2009 to bring higher health costs</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206817778</link>
<pubDate>7 Jan 2009 05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  plans last year covered 70.5 percent of Hoosier workers under 65, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That percentage is higher than that of many states, yet is still a decline  ...
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<title>Radical changes to U.S. labour policy loom</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206783724</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 23:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  fortunes will at last turn under the new administration. Ross Eisenbrey, vice-president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think-tank devoted to supporting the labour movement, said he only has to look  ...
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<title>Black Middle Class in Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206745297</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 19:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  said Algernon Austin, director of Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, and unfortunately, it looks like things will get worse. The adage that when America  ...
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<title>Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206692540</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 14:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  reasons for the economic crisis facing workers. Here is the slide (courtesy of the Economic Policy Institute and Change To Win) that I think is perhaps the most graphic, clear explanation  ...
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<title>free trade</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206652344</link>
<pubDate>6 Jan 2009 10:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has resulted in the loss of 2.3 million jobs through 2007, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In 2006 alone, the trade gap with China resulted in the loss of 366,000  ...
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<title>Analysis: Fear of falling</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206550232</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 20:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  made at least 275 times the pay of the average worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think-tank (by other calculations, the multiple reached at as much as 369).  ...
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<title>Bruce Springsteen Partners with Wal-Mart</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206504376</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 15:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  wages, as late as 2005, aren&#39;t enough to support a family, according to the Economic Policy Institute. ...
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<title>College degree is no guarantee in recession-haunted search for new job</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206501169</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 15:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a flood everyone gets swept away,&quot; said Lawrence Mishel, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. In November, the unemployment rate among workers with a college degree or  ...
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<title>Experts: Degrees not a job safeguard</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206481112</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 12:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a flood, everyone gets swept away,&quot; said Lawrence Mishel, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. In November, the unemployment rate among workers with a college degree or  ...
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<title>It&#39;s about education, not teacher unions</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206473124</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 11:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  he refuses to abide by the conventions of the current education debate. When the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal and pro-labor think tank, circulated an education manifesto that focused on expanding  ...
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<title>Say It Ain&#39;t So - Bruce Springsteen Parners with Wal-Mart</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206463767</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 10:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  wages, as late as 2005, aren&#39;t enough to support a family, according to the Economic Policy Institute. ...
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<title>Degree may not help you keep your job</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=206427370</link>
<pubDate>5 Jan 2009 02:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a flood, everyone gets swept away,&quot; said Lawrence Mishel, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. In November, the unemployment rate among workers with a college degree or  ...
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