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	<description>Bail Out Workers, Not the Bankers!</description>
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		<title>Joseph E. Stiglitz: Fiscal Plan Fails both Markets and Taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/26/joseph-e-stiglitz-fiscal-plan-fails-both-markets-and-taxpayers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Socializing losses while privatizing gains is more worrisome than the consequences of nationalizing banks."]]></description>
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		<title>The Real AIG Scandal, by Eliot Spitzer</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/25/the-real-aig-scandal-by-eliot-spitzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not the bonuses. It&#8217;s that AIG&#8217;s counterparties are getting paid back in full.
By Eliot Spitzer
Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG&#8217;s bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG&#8217;s counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?
For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Leaders Demand That &#8216;Single Payer&#8217; Be Part Of Obama Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/05/labor-leaders-demand-that-single-payer-be-part-of-obama-healthcare-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141253.php
Article Date: 05 Mar 2009 &#8211; 6:00 PST
The Obama administration&#8217;s plans to hold a &#8220;Health Care Summit&#8221; that excludes advocates of single-payer healthcare reform has drawn a sharp response from labor leaders around the country.
&#8220;President Obama has indicated that his administration is committed to the passage of a new &#8216;universal&#8217; national health care program for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynthia McKinney:  Ruminations on President Obama&#8217;s Tenure Thus Far and “Acceptable Punditry”</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/04/cynthia-mckinney-ruminations-on-president-obamas-tenure-thus-far-and-%e2%80%9cacceptable-punditry%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I implore the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus to spearhead the participation of the United States in the United Nation's World Conference Against Racism:  to boldly go where we have gone before. ]]></description>
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		<title>A.F.L.-C.I.O. to Support Nationalizing Banks</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/04/afl-cio-to-support-nationalizing-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...The labor leaders also asserted that the Obama administration, like the Bush administration, had failed to obtain fair value for the tens of billions it had invested in distressed banks.]]></description>
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		<title>Call The White House: Let Single Payer In</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/04/call-the-white-house-let-single-payer-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell Obama to let single payer into the White House Summit on healthcare.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Economics Prof. Jack Rasmus: &#8220;&#8230;the stimulus package: As I have stated repeatedly, it&#8217;s too little too late.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/04/interveiew-with-economics-prof-jack-rasmus-the-stimulus-package-as-i-have-stated-repeatedly-its-too-little-too-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Jack Rasmus, a professor of economics at St. Mary's College and Santa Clara University in Northern California. Prof. Rasmus is a member of the newly formed National Steering Committee of the Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign (WERC). The interview was conducted on March 2, 2009, by Alan Benjamin, organizer for the WERC.]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson on the Obama Administration’s $789 Billion Economic Stimulus Package and $2.5 Trillion Bank Recovery Plans</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/03/robert-kuttner-and-michael-hudson-on-the-obama-administration%e2%80%99s-789-billion-economic-stimulus-package-and-25-trillion-bank-recovery-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of 6 of Democracy Now! presentation.
From Democracy Now February 13, 2009
Both the House and Senate are set to vote today on the $789 billion economic stimulus package. The vote follows weeks of political wrangling that culminated in compromise legislation struck on Wednesday. The final size of the package is less than what both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying to Revive the Bubble Economy: Obama&#8217;s Awful Financial Recovery Plan</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/03/trying-to-revive-the-bubble-economy-obamas-awful-financial-recovery-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/03/trying-to-revive-the-bubble-economy-obamas-awful-financial-recovery-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy has lost the “virtual wealth” in higher-priced homes and the stock market, and must rely on after-tax earnings. But I see little concern for wage earners in the Treasury plan. Without debt relief, consumer spending and business investment will not recover.]]></description>
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		<title>JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Obama Has Confused Saving the Banks with Saving the Bankers</title>
		<link>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/01/joseph-stiglitz-obama-has-confused-saving-the-banks-with-saving-the-bankers/</link>
		<comments>http://wercampaign.org/2009/03/01/joseph-stiglitz-obama-has-confused-saving-the-banks-with-saving-the-bankers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interview Nobel economics laureate and former World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz. Stiglitz says the Obama administration has failed to address the structural and regulatory flaws at the heart of the financial crisis that stand in the way of economic recovery. Stiglitz also talks about why he thinks Obama's strategy on Afghanistan is wrong and that Obama's plan to keep a "residual force" in Iraq will be "very expensive." On health care, Stiglitz says a single-payer system is "the only alternative."  ]]></description>
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