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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>Toxic Threat: Coal and your Health Upcoming Lecture Seriews with Alan Lockwood, MD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaska Community Action on Toxics is proud to invite you to one of four local receptions and presentations with Dr. Lockwood. He will discuss the growing body of medical evidence linking coal development to risks to your health. Several new coal mines are proposed in Alaska from the Matanuska Valley to Chuitna. A new coal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=961&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Alaska Recieves Poor Grades in Responding to Public Record&#8217;s Requests.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2008 report by the Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition graded Alaska&#8217;s performance on responding to public record requests as an &#8220;F&#8221;, only above Alabama and South Dakota.  Out of 16 possible points, Alaska got 0.5. Source: Excerpted From: National Freedom of Information Council 1/12/2012 Filed under: General<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=957&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>U.S. Ranks Last Among High-Income Nations on Preventable Deaths</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2011/09/28/u-s-ranks-last-among-high-income-nations-on-preventable-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States ranks last among 16 high-income, industrialized nations when it comes to deaths that could potentially have been prevented with timely access to effective health care, according to a new Commonwealth Fund–supported study in the journal Health Policy. Based on an analysis by Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee, other nations lowered their &#8220;amenable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=929&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>Policies for Building the Middle Class and Sharing Prosperity</title>
		<link>http://acpp.info/2011/09/28/policies-for-bulding-the-middle-class-and-sharing-prosperity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A robust middle class and broadly shared prosperity are the foundations of a strong economy. This means access to good American jobs, wages, and benefits for a hard day’s work, and the guarantee of retiring with dignity and some measure of economic security. But a middle class does not just happen; it is built by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=919&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Construction Careers Programs: A Model for Workers, Communities, the Environment and a Better Construction Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Partnership for Working Families: Green Construction Careers Programs: A Model for Workers, Communities, the Environment and a Better Construction Industry.  It’s no secret that working families are struggling in the current economy.  Nationwide, leaders are searching for solutions to get people back to work and rebuild the American Dream.  The Partnership for Working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acpp.info&amp;blog=5540906&amp;post=916&amp;subd=acppboard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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