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    <title>The Blog</title>
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    <dc:rights>Copyright 2012</dc:rights>
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      <title>400,000 Long&#45;Term Jobless Lose Unemployment Insurance as Extended Benefits End in Eight More States</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An estimated 236,000 long-term unemployed job-seekers will be abruptly cut-off of federal Extended Benefits this weekend, swelling the ranks of those losing the last 13-to-20 weeks of unemployment insurance to more than 400,000.  On Saturday, May 12, eight states fall off the EB program, cutting off the largest number of jobless workers to be hit so far.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-05-11T13:47:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>From Struggling to Make Ends Meet To Struggling to Survive (VIDEO)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Of the nearly 5.3 million workers in America who had been unemployed for 6 months or longer in April, 70 percent had been jobless for a year or more.  Older workers, in particular those 55 and over, are suffering from the longest average duration of unemployment -- about 60 weeks, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Many older workers face even more extended periods of unemployment.  For 60-year old unemployed Chicago mother-of-two Kevin Kalmes, her job search now stretching for more than two years, times have gone from tough to desperate.  NBC Nightly News included a brief interview clip with Ms. Kalmes in its Friday broadcast segment on the April jobs report.  A 1 min 20 sec web-only video with her is embedded here.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-05-08T14:24:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Race to the Bottom: Georgia Legislators Approve Severe Cuts to Unemployment Insurance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Workers who are laid off after July 1 in Georgia will face the grim prospect of having their already-meager unemployment insurance benefits drastically curtailed.  In the waning minutes of its 2012 session, Georgia’s state legislature last week approved a bill (HB 347) that slashes state unemployment insurance (UI) from the standard 26 weeks to a maximum of 20 weeks, and would further reduce the maximum to as few as 14 weeks depending on Georgia’s unemployment rate.  That rate now stands at 9.1 percent, with Georgia tied for the seventh highest rate among the states.  Fifty Georgia counties – nearly a third of the state’s total – had average unemployment rates of 12 percent or higher last year.  The average duration of unemployment nationally is a near-record 40 weeks, but at most, future jobless workers in Georgia will only be able to receive half of those weeks in regular state benefits.
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      <dc:date>2012-04-04T17:35:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The 2012 Unemployment Insurance Extension:&amp;nbsp; A Detailed Q&amp;amp;A &#45; UPDATE&#45;2  5.10.2012</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[UPDATE-2: 5.10.2012 [with new state data on projected Extended Benefits (EB) last payment dates.]  New legislation authorizing federal unemployment insurance programs for the remainder of 2012 was recently passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.  The new law (Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012) stipulates a number of changes to the federal UI programs, including phased-in changes in the number of weeks of available benefits and some new unemployment rate triggers for certain tiers of the extensions.  It is an even more complicated program now than it was before.   And, thus far, some state agencies that administer the program have been slow to  update unemployment insurance claimants about the changes.   Here, we’ll try to clear up at least some of the confusion and answer some of the most important questions about what’s happening with unemployment insurance – Q&A style.]]></description>
      <dc:subject>Resource</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-03-13T16:30:44+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Despite Improving Job Growth, Older Workers Struggle With Long&#45;Term Unemployment</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in February, continuing a string of steadily improving employment reports from the Labor Department.  Job gains have topped 200,000 in each of the last three months, and private sector job growth over the last twelve months is the strongest in five years.  Still, 12.8 million workers are currently unemployed, with 5.4 million jobless for 27 weeks or more.  Among the long-term unemployed, a disproportionate number are older workers who tend to suffer even longer durations of unemployment, and face severe barriers to job opportunities.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-03-12T15:03:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>MSNBC: Discriminatory Job Market Practices and Long&#45;Term Unemployment (VIDEO)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Melissa Harris-Perry, host of a new weekend morning show on MSNBC, explored the need to address discriminatory job market practices that exclude unemployed job-seekers from employment opportunities, and how those practices exacerbate both the persistent crisis of long-term unemployment and the difficulty of finding good jobs.  She was joined Saturday by Joe Carbone and Melanie Douglas-Seawright of the 'Platform to Employment (P2E)' in southwestern Connecticut, a jobs program for those who've exhausted unemployment insurance that was featured last month on CBS News' 60 Minutes.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-03-12T11:47:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>60 Minutes: A Jobs Program for Workers &#8216;Trapped in Unemployment&#8217;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The CBS News program '60 Minutes' this week featured a powerful segment on the crisis of long-term unemployment, focusing on the Connecticut-based jobs initiative for those who have exhausted unemployment benefits called 'Platform to Employment.']]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-02-21T14:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Congress Renews Unemployment Insurance, But Reduces Benefit Durations Over Remainder of 2012</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Overcoming efforts to dismantle federal unemployment insurance and undermine the basic UI system, Congress today approved a compromise payroll tax rate extension that also averts a threatened March 1st expiration of federal jobless benefits.  Under the plan, the federal unemployment insurance program for long-term unemployed job-seekers who exhaust regular state benefits is continued, while maximum durations of benefits are reduced in stages over the remainder of 2012.
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      <dc:subject>Resource</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-02-17T18:58:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>&#8216;Walk In My Shoes&#8217; Day of Action: Congress Must Act to Support Jobless Americans</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[USAction,  the National Employment Law Project and the AFL-CIO have announced a national day of action for Friday, February 10th, in support of the millions of Americans who face an end-of-month cut-off of federal unemployment insurance and stark new barriers to the program if highly restrictive proposals in Congress are allowed to pass. Find an action or participate online.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-02-10T12:30:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Effort to Dismantle Unemployment Insurance Revived in Congress as Conference Committee Convenes</title>
      <link>http://unemployedworkers.org/site/entry/effort_to_dismantle_unemployment_insurance_revived_in_congress/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Having narrowly averted cutting off unemployment insurance to millions of Americans right before the holidays, Congress now returns to take up what should be a relatively simple task even for this Congress -- a full reauthorization of federal unemployment insurance, the payroll tax reduction and other provisions through 2012.  But, as they did in December, some lawmakers are looking to revive House efforts to slash federal benefits, impose harsh new restrictions and move to dismantle the essential lifeline of unemployment insurance.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-01-27T17:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Congress Passes Two&#45;Month Renewal of Unemployment Insurance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[House leaders, acceding to mounting public outcry over their apparent willingness to cut off unemployment benefits to millions of unemployed job-seekers during the holiday season, agreed late Thursday to accept a compromise two-month extension.  The bill passed the House and Senate early today and was promptly signed by President Obama.  Along with continuing current provisions of federal unemployment insurance, the measure extends last year's payroll tax reduction, TANF aid for needy families and medical reimbursement rates for physicians serving Medicare patients.  House and Senate leaders in both parties are appointing members to a conference committee, which will be tasked with reaching a year-long extension measure when they return after the holidays.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-23T20:35:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Voices of Unemployed Americans: David (VIDEO)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives continues its obstruction of even a temporary extension of federal unemployment insurance, risking the expiration of the benefit programs for millions of long-term jobless workers December 31st.  Watch this 2-minute video, then call your Members of Congress.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-22T13:25:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>NELP Calls for Up&#45;or&#45;Down House Vote on Senate Bill to Extend Unemployment Insurance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: TUESDAY, DEC. 20 -- The National Employment Law Project (NELP) calls on the House of Representatives to hold a straight up-or-down vote on the Senate bill that extends federal unemployment insurance (UI) programs, along with the payroll tax holiday and “doc fix,” for the next two months.  The Senate Leadership negotiated a bi-partisan compromise, with the involvement and blessing of the Speaker of the House.  This compromise rebuffed attempts to scapegoat the unemployed and enact dangerous changes to the basic UI program which undermined its very purpose and effectiveness.  While a two-month deal is not ideal, time is running out to protect the unemployed from being victims of the worst partisan games Congress has ever seen.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-20T13:51:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>NELP Urges House to Pass Senate Bill Extending Unemployment Insurance</title>
      <link>http://unemployedworkers.org/site/entry/nelp_urges_house_to_pass_senate_bill/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The National Employment Law Project issued a statement in advance of a vote expected tonight in the U.S. House of Representatives on a bill that would fully renew federal unemployment insurance for two months, averting an expiration of the program December 31st and allowing more time for Congress to enact a longer-term reauthorization.  At Unemployedworkers.org we are urging everyone to call their Members of the House of Representatives toll free at 888-245-3381 and tell House Members to approve the stopgap Senate extension tonight.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-19T15:16:01+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Voices of Unemployed Americans: Jill (VIDEO)</title>
      <link>http://unemployedworkers.org/site/entry/voices_of_unemployed_americans_jill_video/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A bill that would slash Jill's federal unemployment benefits by more than half is now headed to the U.S. Senate after passing the House on a largely party-line vote.  Watch this 2-minute video, then call your Senators and Members of Congress.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-16T00:13:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Casey Mulligan Declares Unemployment Insurance Root of all Evils</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Well not quite. But “mighty” Casey did step up to the plate today with an uncannily well-timed blog post coinciding with this week’s vote in the House to cut federal unemployment insurance (UI) and facilitate drug testing of Americans who lose their jobs through no fault of their own.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-14T17:47:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>House Leadership Bill Slashes Unemployment Insurance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Proposal Reduces Federal Jobless Benefits by More than Half for Unemployed Workers in the Highest Unemployment States.  Washington, D.C. -- With federally-funded unemployment insurance programs set to expire on December 31st, the leadership of the House of Representatives has proposed to slash the federal unemployment insurance programs and do substantial harm to the basic state programs, a new analysis from the National Employment Law Project finds. The proposals are part of bill H.R. 3630 sponsored by the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Representative Dave Camp (R-MI). A vote is expected as early as Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-12T20:56:04+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Call&#45;In Mobilizes Unemployed Workers in National Action for Renewal of Unemployment Insurance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today -- right now -- tens of thousands of unemployed workers and many more supporters are flooding Congress with phone calls and messages as part of a National Call-In Action urging immediate action to create good jobs and renew the full federal unemployment insurance program for 2012.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-08T15:01:11+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Unemployed Workers Demand Renewal of Unemployment Insurance; Deliver 80,000 Petitions to Congress</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than two hundred unemployed workers took to Capitol Hill today, at a rally and press event calling for immediate Congressional action to renew the federal unemployment insurance (UI) program through 2012.  They were joined by Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP), who delivered 80,000 online signers of the Petition to Congress launched by Unemployedworkers.org.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-12-01T03:20:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Unemployed? We Need Your Stories Now!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Are you unemployed?  If you answered "Yes" -- we need your help right now.  We need you to raise your voice and tell us your story.
The real stories of unemployed workers are a powerful tool in the campaign that's quickly ramping up to get Congress to renew federal unemployment insurance through 2012, and take additional steps to avert layoffs, create good jobs, end discriminatory job market practices that exclude the unemployed, and get real help to long-term unemployed workers including those who have exhausted unemployment benefits. 
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      <dc:date>2011-11-16T19:57:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Bill to Renew Federal Unemployment Insurance for 2012 Introduced in Congress</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Sander Levin (D-MI) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today introduced legislation to reauthorize federal unemployment insurance programs for 2012, taking the first step to keep crucial federal aid in place for millions of unemployed Americans who are struggling to find employment in today’s dismal job market.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-11-03T18:31:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Unemployed American Job&#45;Seeker is Moving&#8230; to Another Country</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(UPDATE at end of post) Sharron Tetrault, a single mom from Mount Vernon, NY, was laid off from her job in January 2010.  Her dedicated and increasingly desperate job-search proved fruitless for twenty-one months.  Now, Sharron writes to share her story on our blog as she has decided to leave the country.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-11-01T18:13:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Discriminatory Job Postings Continue; Senators Urge CareerBuilder to Stop</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Discriminatory practices that exclude unemployed workers in the job market continue, as evidence emerged today of numerous recent job postings on CareerBuilder.com stating candidates "must be currently employed."  News of the most recent exclusionary job ads comes as the three U.S. Senators sponsoring legislation to ban the discriminatory job market practices have called on CareerBuilder.com to stop posting such ads.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-10-18T17:52:15+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Unemployment Insurance for Millions Not Yet Renewed as Jobs Bill is Blocked in the Senate</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Despite a majority of Senators voting to take up debate of the American Jobs Act, a minority succeeded Tuesday in blocking the measure from even being considered.  The bill includes several key job-creation and tax-relief provisions designed to boost a stalling economy, and programs to aid long-term unemployed workers, including a ban on discrimination against jobless workers in the job market, as well as the essential renewal of federal unemployment insurance programs.  Unless Congress reauthorizes the current federal benefit programs before the December 31st deadline, millions of workers and their families will be left without their primary means of support to buy food, pay the rent or mortgage, and cover their other most basic necessities. ]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-10-12T18:21:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>An Unemployed Mom Urges Congress to Reauthorize Federal Unemployment Insurance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dawn Deane, an unemployed human resources professional from Philadelphia, told a House subcommittee last week that reauthorizing the federal unemployment insurance programs before they expire at the end of this year is "simply the single most important thing for this Congress to do right now, along with making some real efforts to create good jobs for the millions like me who just want to work."]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-10-11T11:06:19+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Weak Job Growth and High Unemployment Show Need for Renewed Federal Benefits, New Jobs Initiatives</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Continued sluggish job growth in September kept the official U.S. unemployment rate at 9.1 percent, according to today's employment report from the Labor Department.  After discounting the addition of 45,000 returning Verizon workers previously on strike, private employers added a meager 92,000 jobs while the public sector lost a total of 34,000 jobs, including nearly 26,000 local and state education jobs.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-10-07T14:11:15+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Lawmakers Urge Bipartisan Support for Bill to Ban Discrimination Against Unemployed Job&#45;seekers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The lead sponsors of legislation to prohibit practices that exclude jobless workers from employment opportunities called Wednesday for bipartisan support for their measure.  Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and Hank Johnson, Jr. (GA-4), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) were joined by Rebecca Dixon of the National Employment Law Project (NELP) and Unemployedworkers.org, as US Action President William McNary delivered 250,000 petition signatures to Congress urging an end to discrimination against unemployed job-seekers.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-09-21T18:41:14+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>CareerBuilder.com Posts New Wave of Discriminatory Job Ads</title>
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      <guid>http://unemployedworkers.org/site/entry/careerbuilder.com_posts_new_wave_of_discriminatory_job_ads/</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A recent survey of online job sites has shown that CareerBuilder.com continues to post numerous new ads that discriminate against unemployed job-seekers.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-09-20T17:16:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Record Number in Poverty in U.S. as Income Gap Widens</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[46.2 million Americans were living in poverty in 2010, a Census report showed this week -- the highest number on record dating back to 1959 -- representing 15.1 percent of the population.  And the poorest fifth of the population saw incomes decline by the highest percentage, further widening the vast income gap in the U.S.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-09-15T17:00:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title>NELP Statement on Obama Jobs Speech</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The President made a strong case tonight for the urgent need to put America back to work.  He laid out a plan that could jump start job growth and return millions to paid employment.  After months focused on the wrong priorities, it is past time for our leaders to shift their attention to job creation, front and center.  We are glad the President has tackled this crisis head-on, and we urge Congress to take him up on the call to act immediately. ]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2011-09-09T13:06:30+00:00</dc:date>
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