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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>Wisconsin Pension Plan Among Most Secure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The protests in Wisconsin over public workers’ pay, benefits and collective bargaining rights have underscored a dilemma facing many states: the cost of public pensions and how cash-strapped governments should pay for them. But the turmoil overshadows a salient point: Wisconsin may have a budget deficit, but its pension system does not. Studies show that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=797&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>
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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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		<title>Repealing Health Reform&#8217;s Maintenance of Effort Provision Could Cause Millions of Children, Parents, Seniors, and People With Disabilities to Lose Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of Republican governors have asked Congress to repeal the maintenance of effort provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which generally requires states to hold coverage steady in their Medicaid and CHIP programs until 2014. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a paper that highlights the harmful effects such a repeal would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=757&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://acpp.info/2008/11/21/425/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This letter, signed by 387 economists, including Nobel Laureates Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Solow, and George Akerlof, urges Congress to move quickly and decisively to pass an effective new economic stimulus package.] The Honorable Henry Reid           The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Senate Majority Leader                 Speaker of the House Washington, DC 20510   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=425&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Crisis: Where to find Information &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2008/10/17/economic-crisis-where-to-find-information-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Economic Policy (CEPR) &#8211; The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people&#8217;s lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, they should be informed about the problems and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=409&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic Crisis: Where to Find Information</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2008/10/10/the-economic-crisis-where-to-find-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now it is indisputable that we are headed for difficult financial times around the world for low- and medium-income families.  Alaska, of course, is tied into the world economy and we will be hard hit.  I would like to just reference a few resources that I think are very good on these issues, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=406&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Research: One-Third of Alaska&#039;s Jobs are &quot;Bad Jobs&quot;</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2008/05/24/new-research-one-third-of-alaskas-jobs-are-bad-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 17:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people&#8217;s lives. CEPR is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options. Toward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=301&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retirement Security Update for Alaska Public Employees</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2007/07/16/retirement-security-update-for-alaska-public-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of the 25th Alaska Legislature Senator Kim Elton and cosponsor Senator Lesil McGuire introduced SB183, an act which would repeal the &#8220;401K savings plan&#8221; imposed on new teachers and public employees hired after June 30 2006. SB183 would restore a safe, secure Defined Benefit plan which would allow our seniors to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=243&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Findings Regarding Public Employees Retirement Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a copy of a memorandum sent by Senator Kim Elton to the Finance Committee summarizing recent findings by Buck Consultants, retirement system analysts who work for the State. In this document, &#8220;DB&#8221; is short for &#8220;defined benefit,&#8221; the classic retirement plan which includes a pension, and is like the type of plan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=232&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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