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		<title>Cross-Post: The 10 Most Racist Moments of the GOP Primary (So Far)</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/29/cross-post-the-10-most-racist-moments-of-the-gop-primary-so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Austerity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gop Primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina Debate]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=11579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Alternet on January 25th. One cannot forget that the contemporary Republican Party was born with the Southern Strategy, winning over the former Jim Crow South to its side of the political aisle, and as a backlash against &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/29/cross-post-the-10-most-racist-moments-of-the-gop-primary-so-far/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-Post: Montana says no to corporate personhood</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/07/cross-post-montana-says-no-to-corporate-personhood/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/07/cross-post-montana-says-no-to-corporate-personhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Personhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montana Supreme Court]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=11361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on Current on January 4. In all the hoopla over the Iowa Caucus &#8212; who&#8217;s up, who&#8217;s down, who&#8217;s out &#8212; a story from Montana has slipped under the radar. The Montana Supreme Court closed out 2011 by &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2012/01/07/cross-post-montana-says-no-to-corporate-personhood/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Chaos</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/02/it%e2%80%99s-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-chaos/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/02/it%e2%80%99s-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-chaos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Spicer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1 percent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[99 percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[99%]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adbusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit counseling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Credit Counselors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Hangover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jdimytai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jdimytai Damour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Rock AR]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Xmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pepper Spray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rome New York]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waffle Iron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal Mart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walmart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, crowds of frantic Black Friday shoppers trampled 34 year-old Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour to his death as he and other workers tried to unlock the door at 5:00 A.M. It went unnoticed by most of those involved in &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/12/02/it%e2%80%99s-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-chaos/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-post: Occupy Cleveland Saves Woman’s Home From Imminent Foreclosure</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/20/cross-post-occupy-cleveland-saves-woman%e2%80%99s-home-from-imminent-foreclosure/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/20/cross-post-occupy-cleveland-saves-woman%e2%80%99s-home-from-imminent-foreclosure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nationwide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[November 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protesters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=10516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted by Think Progress on November 15. Last week, Occupy Atlanta encamped at the Snellville, Georgia home of a Gwinnett County police officer in an attempt to save his family’s home from foreclosure. At the time, Occupy Atlanta organizer Tim &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/11/20/cross-post-occupy-cleveland-saves-woman%e2%80%99s-home-from-imminent-foreclosure/">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>
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		<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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>Cross-post: Wage Theft Epidemic Spurs Nationwide Protests</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/11/14/cross-post-wage-theft-epidemic-spurs-nationwide-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/11/14/cross-post-wage-theft-epidemic-spurs-nationwide-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Levine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications Coordinator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Postel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imprisonment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Slavery Conditions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Worker Justice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=6543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In These Times originally published this article by Art Levine on November 12, 2010: Activists in more than 30 cities, organized by Interfaith Worker Justice and backed by labor groups, are staging a National Day of Action Against Wage Theft &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/11/14/cross-post-wage-theft-epidemic-spurs-nationwide-protests/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Hardship Breeding Hate</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/17/economic-hardship-breeding-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/17/economic-hardship-breeding-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Hardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Strain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=5827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Political and business pundits both agree that our country’s economy is spiraling out of control as millions of Americans engage in daily debates regarding the economy.  The truth is &#8211; the economy has been spiraling for quite some time.  As &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/17/economic-hardship-breeding-hate/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>End Poverty by Rebuilding Local Food Economies</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/12/end-poverty-by-rebuilding-local-food-economies/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/12/end-poverty-by-rebuilding-local-food-economies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain Workers Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Sovereignty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=5775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from the Food Chain Workers Alliance blog. Call to Action for Oct. 10-17! Celebrate the Launch of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance! Take Action! Emerging out of the US Working Group on the Food Crisis (www.usfoodcrisisgroup.org), the US Food &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/12/end-poverty-by-rebuilding-local-food-economies/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day in the Great Recession</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/07/labor-day-in-the-great-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/07/labor-day-in-the-great-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Acee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bp Oil Rig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilda Solis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyatt Hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Day Weekend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Rig Explosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Sector Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steady Decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union busting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union Cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNITE HERE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Farm Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia Mine Collapse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=5717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the big dreams and even loftier promises of President Obama and his Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, little has been done to address unemployment, job safety, and job training- topics of utmost concern to American workers. A steady decline &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/09/07/labor-day-in-the-great-recession/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-Post: The 2010 Without Housing Update Has Arrived!</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/08/14/cross-post-the-2010-without-housing-update-has-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/08/14/cross-post-the-2010-without-housing-update-has-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divestment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development Policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frontlines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Advocacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From WRAP&#8217;s (Western Regional Advocacy Project) blog: We’re at a critical juncture for housing policy in this country: millions of Americans are homeless and tens of millions more are on the brink of economic collapse. The 2010 Update focuses public &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/08/14/cross-post-the-2010-without-housing-update-has-arrived/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Senate hosts tea party: Black Farmers, Native Americans, Shirley Sherrod Not Invited</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/28/senate-hosts-tea-party-black-farmers-native-americans-shirley-sherrod-not-invited/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/28/senate-hosts-tea-party-black-farmers-native-americans-shirley-sherrod-not-invited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appropriations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau Of Indian Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federation for Southern Cooperatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism In America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Settlement Funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Sherrod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unanimous Consent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even  as Shirley Sherrod captured the attention of the nation last week, Senate Republicans torpedoed appropriations due tens of thousands of Black farmers and Native Americans after years of litigation aimed at rectifying  federal discrimination and mismanagement.  Stripping the appropriations &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/28/senate-hosts-tea-party-black-farmers-native-americans-shirley-sherrod-not-invited/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hyatt Hotel Workers Fed Up, Ready to Protest</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/20/hyatt-hotel-workers-fed-up-ready-to-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/20/hyatt-hotel-workers-fed-up-ready-to-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Garvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Disobedience Actions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dishwashers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotel Workers Rising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyatt Hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pritzker Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Share Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNITE HERE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of workers are gearing up to protest Hyatt and its billionaire owners—Chicago&#8217;s own Pritzker family—on Thursday, July 22. Workers in Chicago, Honolulu, San Francisco, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Monterey, Boston, Vancouver, Toronto, Miami, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, San Antonio, Santa Clara &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/20/hyatt-hotel-workers-fed-up-ready-to-protest/">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>

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		<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>Cross-post: Jobless People Suffer, While the GOP Helps the Rich</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/18/cross-post-jobless-people-suffer-while-the-gop-helps-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/18/cross-post-jobless-people-suffer-while-the-gop-helps-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imagine 2050 Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hourly Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Hightower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrinking workweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Families]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Hightower, posted on AlterNet July 15, 2010: As personal economies keep shriveling, politicians are more interested in comforting the comfortable. The good news is that America&#8217;s economy continues to grow. The bad news is that most people&#8217;s personal &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/07/18/cross-post-jobless-people-suffer-while-the-gop-helps-the-rich/">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>The High Cost of Citizenship Goes Higher</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/14/the-high-cost-of-citizenship-goes-higher/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/14/the-high-cost-of-citizenship-goes-higher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Garvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Applying For Citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship And Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship And Immigration Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship Fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost of Citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fee Increases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hpv Vaccine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obtaining A Green Card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Permanent Residents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S Citizenship And Immigration Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U S Citizenship And Immigration Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcomm.webfactional.com/?p=4964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Skyrocketing immigration fees over the last three years are pricing immigrants out of a path to citizenship. In 2007, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) raised citizenship fees by an average of 70%. In 2008, the agency tacked on a &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/14/the-high-cost-of-citizenship-goes-higher/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>No One (White) is Responsible for Anything</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/02/no-one-white-is-responsible-for-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/02/no-one-white-is-responsible-for-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bp Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culpability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent finger-pointing show put on by the BP oil spill execs from the three primary companies involved in that disaster has provided yet another narrative for contemporary America: no white person is responsible for anything, especially when it comes &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/02/no-one-white-is-responsible-for-anything/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>College Degrees Mean Less For Black Graduates</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/27/college-degrees-mean-less-for-black-graduates/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/27/college-degrees-mean-less-for-black-graduates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Acee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Board's Education Advocacy and Policy Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Degrees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joblessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Association Of Colleges And Employers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New College Graduates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment Rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year College Degree]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next couple weeks America’s colleges and universities will be graduating hundreds of thousands of students into a job market that is already flooded with job seekers. For black graduates the difficult job search is compounded by racial inequality. &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/27/college-degrees-mean-less-for-black-graduates/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beltway Elites Blame Immigrants for Teen Job Losses; Gulf Oil Spill Next?</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/19/beltway-elites-blame-immigrants-for-teen-job-losses-gulf-oil-spill-next/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/19/beltway-elites-blame-immigrants-for-teen-job-losses-gulf-oil-spill-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 11:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Immigration Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conesville Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donor Dollars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federation For American Immigration Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massive Warehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media References]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Numbersusa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurant Dishes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seed Corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage Summer Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Useless Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wage Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Class Heroes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent data- and chart-packed report blaming immigrants for the loss of (U.S. born!) teenage summer jobs leaves one wondering just what planet those elites at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reside on. That said, CIS is to be &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/19/beltway-elites-blame-immigrants-for-teen-job-losses-gulf-oil-spill-next/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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