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	<title>IMAGINE 2050 &#187; Carlos Rich</title>
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		<title>Giving Thanks to the Immigrants Working the Processing Plant Floors</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/23/giving-thanks-to-the-immigrants-on-the-processing-plant-floors/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/23/giving-thanks-to-the-immigrants-on-the-processing-plant-floors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giving Thanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hog Farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hormel Foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Of Plenty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat And Poultry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant Floors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing Plant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Production Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southeast Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Of Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Feast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey Farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Food And Commercial Workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the Thanksgiving holiday here, I’d like to take a moment to talk about the workers who process and pack the turkeys that so many of us will consume.    When I drive through the state of Iowa and all across &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/23/giving-thanks-to-the-immigrants-on-the-processing-plant-floors/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying in the Work Place &amp; in Our Schools: the Same Problem</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/06/bullying-in-the-work-place-in-our-schools-the-same-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/06/bullying-in-the-work-place-in-our-schools-the-same-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bullying In The Work Place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamey Rodemeyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Orientation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplaces]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bulling is an obvious problem in this nation, one that’s receiving more and more serious attention in recent times. Young Jamey Rodemeyer, for example, took his life because some other cruel boys were ruthlessly mocking him for his sexual orientation. &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/10/06/bullying-in-the-work-place-in-our-schools-the-same-problem/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Think Your Summer was Hot? Try Working in the Agricultural Fields of the US.</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/02/think-your-summer-was-hot-try-working-in-agricultural-fields-of-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/02/think-your-summer-was-hot-try-working-in-agricultural-fields-of-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agricultural Fields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capatas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corn Maize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corn Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhaustion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extreme Heat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H-2A Visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laborers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Attention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupational Safety And Health Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=9590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of this country’s food production depends on foreign laborers who come to this country temporarily. The US contracts with other governments to bring workers here to do the “unwanted, unpleasant jobs” that Americans do want to do. These migrants &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/09/02/think-your-summer-was-hot-try-working-in-agricultural-fields-of-the-us/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meat-Packing Workers Coalesce after Attack by Supervisor</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/12/meat-packing-workers-coalesce-after-attack-by-supervisor/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/12/meat-packing-workers-coalesce-after-attack-by-supervisor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hog Head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Packing Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physical Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker Organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As many of us know, immigrants are often exploited in the workplace, but many of us aren’t privy to the severe impunity, even physical violence, that their supervisors sometimes display. Such was the case a couple weeks ago when a &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/07/12/meat-packing-workers-coalesce-after-attack-by-supervisor/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Loathing on the Killing Room Floor</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/fear-and-loathing-on-the-killing-room-floor/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/fear-and-loathing-on-the-killing-room-floor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bathroom Breaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cumulative Trauma Disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eating Meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preliminary Investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proper Documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Kevin Bascue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyson Fresh Meats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Safety]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where animals are slaughtered and processed, where the meat is portioned and packaged, several dangerous elements exist. Processing plants in this country dispense with over 400 head of cattle per hour, which from living animal to fully processed meat is &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/06/15/fear-and-loathing-on-the-killing-room-floor/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrants are Vital to Our Communities</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/20/immigrants-are-vital-to-our-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/20/immigrants-are-vital-to-our-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Collar Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrespect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Customs Enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Nationality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration And Nationality Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proper Documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=8438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months back workers were let go from their jobs at a local processing plant in Iowa due to discrepancies with their immigration status. I started to get calls on a cold Monday in January. Workers were in a &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/05/20/immigrants-are-vital-to-our-communities/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shows of Unity Permeate this Year&#8217;s National Latino Congreso</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/01/7902/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/01/7902/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My experience this past weekend at the National Latino Congreso in Austin, TX, was truly inspiring, as many of us convened together with Latino leaders and grassroots organizers from across the country to raise and explore issues of education, migration, &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/04/01/7902/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Food workers struggle for justice with tomato pickers in Immokalee</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/16/food-workers-struggle-for-justice-with-tomato-pickers-in-immokalee/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/16/food-workers-struggle-for-justice-with-tomato-pickers-in-immokalee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do The Right Thing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fcwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grocery Retailers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immokalee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publix Grocery Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomato Harvesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trader Joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Dc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I along with a few workers from the Midwest joined hundreds of protesters and Immokalee workers in Tampa, Florida.  This effort to bring more attention to the plight of food workers started in the northeast and made &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/16/food-workers-struggle-for-justice-with-tomato-pickers-in-immokalee/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant and refugee workers undercut by temp agency hiring</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/12/immigrant-and-refugee-workers-undercu/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/12/immigrant-and-refugee-workers-undercu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Situations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Face Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardest Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repercussions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sick Pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staffing Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temp Agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warehouse Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warehouses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Times are hard and a lot of Americans are having difficulty finding jobs.  Immigrants, refugees and other workers of color are having the hardest time.  With more states requiring that employers use E-Verify and Form I-9, some face discrimination in &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/12/immigrant-and-refugee-workers-undercu/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I-9 Verification, riddled with errors, continues to hurt American workers</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/02/i-9-verification-riddled-with-errors-continues-to-hurt-american-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/02/i-9-verification-riddled-with-errors-continues-to-hurt-american-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dhs Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Error Rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Employers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandatory System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security Number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verification Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verification System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=7290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, the US initiated the I-9 verification program for employers. The I-9 Form is used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to verify an employee’s identity and eligibility to work in the U.S. Mandatory verification is not good &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/02/i-9-verification-riddled-with-errors-continues-to-hurt-american-workers/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meatpacking workers ready for struggle in 2011</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/05/meatpacking-workers-ready-for-struggle-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/05/meatpacking-workers-ready-for-struggle-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abusive Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meatpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been about 30 years since the turkey plants began to open in the Iowa and other parts of the rural Midwest.  The location was ideal for corporations.  After breaking up the labor unions in places like Chicago and &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/01/05/meatpacking-workers-ready-for-struggle-in-2011/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Temp agencies make job security tough for meatpacking workers</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/09/temp-agencies-make-job-security-tough-for-meatpacking-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/09/temp-agencies-make-job-security-tough-for-meatpacking-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heating Bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiring Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meatpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minor Infraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temp Agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temp Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temporary Work Agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Position]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage Rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=6755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Temporary work agencies have been popping up all over the country. I did a Google search for agencies in Iowa alone and came back with 53,000 results.  As I talk to workers, many of them say they are finding work, &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/12/09/temp-agencies-make-job-security-tough-for-meatpacking-workers/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Punitive Rules in Food Processing Endanger Workers and Consumers</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/11/09/punitive-rules-in-food-processing-endanger-workers-and-consumers/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/11/09/punitive-rules-in-food-processing-endanger-workers-and-consumers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Abuse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talking with workers in food plants, mostly where turkeys and hogs are processed, I hear many disturbing stories.  Just a few months ago management at one of these plants fired a woman who had been working there for over six &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/11/09/punitive-rules-in-food-processing-endanger-workers-and-consumers/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stress, Working Conditions and Workers Health</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/10/14/stress-working-conditions-and-workers-health/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/10/14/stress-working-conditions-and-workers-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causes Hypertension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Stress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypertension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workers Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Conditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Low paying and high stress jobs take a toll on the human body.   No I am not a doctor, but I spend a lot of time talking to low wage workers in high stress work environments across the Midwest.  I &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/10/14/stress-working-conditions-and-workers-health/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hardhat Decals Created by Immigrants and Refugees to Improve Safety</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/13/hardhat-decals-created-by-immigrants-and-refugees-to-improve-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/13/hardhat-decals-created-by-immigrants-and-refugees-to-improve-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for New Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Action Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant and Refugee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line Speed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unsafe Working Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a story of a how a simple sticker can be used to send a message that could literally safe lives and limbs. Eight months ago, it was a cold and snowy January weekend in Iowa when &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/13/hardhat-decals-created-by-immigrants-and-refugees-to-improve-safety/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the 14th Amendment</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/08/16/defending-the-14th-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/08/16/defending-the-14th-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[14th Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birth Certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Policy Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landmark Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawmakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Composition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Undocumented Immigrants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 14th Amendment is the affirmation that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction are, in fact, U.S. citizens. Efforts to dismantle are moving us backwards on American democracy. It would take us &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/08/16/defending-the-14th-amendment/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Labor and American Immigration</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/20/chinese-labor-and-american-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/20/chinese-labor-and-american-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African American History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Wages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Disparity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=5253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rumor has it the end of cheap labor is coming to China. I really doubt that is true, but at least it is looking better for some Chinese workers in terms of receiving something similar to fair wages. We know &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/20/chinese-labor-and-american-immigration/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Reform Benefits American Economy</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/24/immigration-reform-benefits-american-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/24/immigration-reform-benefits-american-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol Agents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comprehensive Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gross Domestic Product]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazardous Working Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Safety Violations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why would immigration reform make sense from an economic and labor point of view?  Many are saying that immigrants come here and are taking away jobs from lots of “Americans”.  That’s not entirely true for a couple of reasons. First, &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/24/immigration-reform-benefits-american-economy/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Knowledge Yields A Lot Of Power</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/25/a-little-knowledge-yields-a-lot-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/25/a-little-knowledge-yields-a-lot-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health And Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health And Safety Hazards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migrant Agricultural Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupational Safety And Health Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Laws]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=4721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never expected something so small that it could fit in a back pocket to make such a big difference.  For many in this country, information is readily available via the Internet.  But this is not the always case in &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/25/a-little-knowledge-yields-a-lot-of-power/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great Successes at the Latino Worker Health &amp; Safety Summit</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/04/23/great-successes-at-the-latino-worker-health-safety-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/04/23/great-successes-at-the-latino-worker-health-safety-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Action Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health And Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Discrimination]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=4379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we took workers to Houston, Texas for what could be a historical event, the National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health &#38; Safety. The worker leaders who joined us on the trip have helped to build the Health &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/04/23/great-successes-at-the-latino-worker-health-safety-summit/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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