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		<title>State and Local Workers Earn Less than Similar Private Sector Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recession, not overpaid public sector employees to blame for state and local budget woes A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that state and local government workers pay a wage penalty compared to private-sector workers with similar characteristics. Recent media accounts have suggested that state and local workers earn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=701&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Income Gaps Between Rich and the Rest of Us Widen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades, New Data Show By Arloc Sherman and Chad Stone &#8220;The gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more than tripled between 1979 and 2007 (the period for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=697&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blog by Sam Rhodes: Deficit Boogeyman and Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 Nobel Prize winner for economics Paul Krugman, who has authored 20 books and more than 200 papers on the subject, offered an enlightening viewpoint on another aspect of spoon-fed fear in The New York Times in February. In a sudden hysteria that could be likened to swine flu on many levels, Washington now has a chorus of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=688&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Senate Bill 213 – Funding for School Meals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 7,000 low income children in Alaska can&#8217;t get a free or reduced price meal at school because their schools do not offer the breakfast program. Why not? The federal reimbursement for breakfast is simply too low to make it economically feasible for most schools. Over the last three legislative sessions, Food Bank of Alaska, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=684&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Celebrates Marmot Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaskans and their young state will officially celebrate the newest tradition to be established in the Last Frontier February 2nd. Alaska Marmot Day pays homage to our very own marmot, an iconic creature that populates so many regions of Alaska. [Excerpted from Senator Menard's newsletter] Filed under: General<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=678&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YRBS Action Alert: SB101 Hearing Tuesday, February 2nd, 3PM</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2010/02/01/yrbs-action-alert-sb101-hearing-tuesday-february-2nd-3pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SB 101, Student Questionnaires and Surveys (sponsor Senator_Bettye_Davis@legis.state.ak.us) is scheduled for a hearing in the House Health and Social Services Committee on Tuesday, February 2nd. This bill allows for passive parental consent for students taking the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS.) ACTION NEEDED: PLEASE Contact House H&#38;SS Committee members before the 3 p.m. hearing on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=671&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Unions Release Two Reports on the Detrimental Impact of the Senate Excise Tax on FEHBP Health Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports find that excise tax will have reduce benefits and raise costs for employees WASHINGTON &#8211; Two reports released December 8, 2009 by federal unions found that the so-called “Cadillac” tax on higher-cost health plans contained in the U.S. Senate health care bill would actually affect average plans like those under the Federal Employees Health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=665&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert: Will Congress&#8217; Jobs Bill Save Transit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is working on a major jobs bill that could help struggling transit systems across the country facing serious layoffs, service cuts and fare hikes, keep our buses and trains running, bring lasting improvements to our country&#8217;s transportation system…and strengthen our economy at the same time. But only if it&#8217;s done right. And that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=663&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court Says Corporations Can Buy Elections: You Think I&#8217;m Kidding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary by Representative Les Gara Yesterday the United States Supreme Court did something so big that it even took that couple who broke into the White House party – and that 3D movie with the blue people &#8211; off the news radar.  For at least a minute. If you thought the fight over who should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=656&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Costs of Charging Our Way Through an Economic Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a downward economy, an increasing number of families rely on credit cards to cover daily living expenses.  While credit may be necessary to plug short-term gaps in income, it comes at a high price through soaring fees and interest rates, damage to credit scores, and burdensome debt that may take years to repay.  Join [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&blog=5540906&post=650&subd=acppboard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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