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		<title>The Movement to End Wage Theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade, grassroots opposition to wage theft has grown dramatically across the country.  Wage theft, the illegal underpayment of wages primarily affects the working poor.  It is widespread and occurs in various forms and industries.  It is estimated that millions of low wage workers annually are not paid at legally required overtime rates, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=953&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Analysis of the 2010 Census Labor Statistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Women’s Law Center’s analysis of 2010 Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics state data is now available, and we wanted to share [their] findings. The series of state-specific fact sheets covers: Poverty rates among women by race and ethnicity, Poverty rates among children, The wage gap, Health insurance coverage for women and children, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=925&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statement: Robert Greenstein, President, on Census’ 2010 Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: By Robert Greenstein &#8220;Today&#8217;s Census report shows that in 2010, the share of all Americans and the share of children living in poverty, the number and share of people living in &#8220;deep poverty,&#8221; and the number without health insurance all reached their highest level in many years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=908&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Jobs Deficit: Low-Paying Jobs and Falling Wages Dominate Growth since 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the National Employment Law Project for immediate release: Depletion of Mid-Wage Occupations Puts Burden on Recovery to Rebuild with Good Jobs NEW YORK – A new study finds that low-paying jobs have dominated employment growth in the first year of the recovery, while occupations offering better pay have been far slower to return.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=862&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hand Up: How State Earned Income Tax Credits Help Working Families Escape Poverty in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal Earned Income Tax Credit, which began in 1975 and has been expanded several times since then, is often heralded as the most effective anti-poverty program in the United States, particularly for children in working families. In 2009 alone, it lifted 6.5 million working families, including 3.3 million children, out of poverty. The credit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=828&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unions Make the Middle Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without Unions, the Middle Class Withers A study released by the Center for American Progress American Worker Project reveals the importance of unions in creating and keeping a strong middle class. Why should anyone—especially those who are not union members—care that union membership is at record lows and likely to fall even further? Because if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=821&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Tax Charts of the U.S. Tax System</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2011/04/17/top-ten-tax-charts-of-the-u-s-tax-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. With the April 18 tax filing deadline fast approaching, the CBPP assembled the Top Ten Tax Charts to provide a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=818&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Employment Law Project 2010 Annual Report</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2011/04/16/national-employment-law-project-2010-annual-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than 40 years, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) has worked to restore the promise of economic opportunity for working families across America. In partnership with grassroots and national allies, NELP promotes policies to create good jobs, enforce hard-won workplace rights, and help unemployed workers regain their economic footing. NELP’s 2010 Annual Report, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=813&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking Out! We reject cuts to our children&#8217;s future!</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2011/03/03/speaking-out-we-reject-cuts-to-our-childrens-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is now debating deep cuts to discretionary spending, where most child services draw their funding. While Congress may think of this spending as &#8220;discretionary,&#8221; we think that child care, early education, nutrition, and other nurturing is mandatory for every child in America. Among the proposed cuts is a $1 billion slash to Head Start, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=785&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blueprint: Creating Jobs and Strengthening the Middle Class</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2011/02/23/blueprint-creating-jobs-and-strengthening-the-middle-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Americans continue to look for jobs, the economy itself has been growing for six quarters. Instead of creating jobs to put millions of Americans back to work, big banks and corporations continue to amass wealth at the taxpayers’ expense. As industries that once employed vast swaths of our population continue to disappear, and as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=770&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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