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		<title>Thirty Fortune 500 Companies Paid More to Lobby Congress than they Did in Federal Income Taxes, U.S. PIRG Study Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the second anniversary approaching of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case – which opened the floodgates to corporate spending on elections – XX PIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice reveal 30 corporations that spent more to lobby Congress than they did in taxes. The report, Representation without Taxation: Fortune 500 Companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=967&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>February Alaska Economic Trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February Trends examines the major role of the federal government in Alaska’s economy: funding, jobs, and how the federal influence has changed over time. Also this month is an overview of the “other” unemployment rate – the insured unemployment rate or IUR – which measures only the unemployed workers who actually apply for benefits. Finally, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=965&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEW REPORT: 265 Major, Profitable U.S. Corporations’ Tax Avoidance Costs States $42 Billion Over Three Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A comprehensive new study that profiles 265 consistently profitable Fortune 500 companies finds that 68 of them paid no state corporate income tax in at least one of the last three years and 20 of them averaged a tax rate of zero or less during the 2008-2010 period. These are among the findings in “Corporate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=955&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>Democracy Now! Interviews Richard Wolff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular radio show Democracy Now! recently interviewed Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of the book &#8220;Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.&#8221; In his interview, Wolff discusses the current economic crisis and the showdown between Republicans and Democrats regarding the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=887&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Property Taxes: Are Anchorage Commercial Properties Paying Their Fair Share?</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2009/10/28/property-taxes-are-anchorage-commercial-properties-paying-fair-share/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago Mayor Sullivan invited me to his office so that I could conduct an interview for Alaska Health Policy Review about his views on health policy.  At the end of that interview, I asked his permission to diverge to a completely different topic &#8212; property taxes.  He allowed the question&#8230; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=612&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>Commonwealth Fund Compares Candidate Health Plans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the executive summary of a longer analysis of Obama&#8217;s and McCain&#8217;s health plans. The analysis was conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, a widely respected foundation that analyzes national and international health plans. The full report is available on their website. INTRODUCTION With the 2008 presidential election just weeks away, health care reform [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=414&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Vulnerable is Alaska&#039;s Economy to Reduced Federal Spending?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via WikipediaThe University of Alaska Anchorage Institute for Social and Economic Analysis (ISER) is a real powerhouse in terms of regularly generating important new Research with implications for public policy in Alaska. The latest is Research Matters No. 35. How Vulnerable is Alaska&#8217;s Economy to Reduced Federal Spending? An excerpt from a recent ISER [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=313&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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