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		<title>DeLay: People are unemployed because they want to be</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/03/08/delay-people-are-unemployed-because-they-want-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[extending unemployment benefits]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/?p=976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from rawstory.com. Click on link to see entire article.
&#8220;Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says that Sen. Jim Bunning was &#8220;brave&#8221; for blocking an extension in unemployment benefits.
DeLay subscribes to the notion that people only try to find jobs when their benefits run out.
&#8220;There is an argument to be made that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Works: Be a Savvy Volunteer</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/03/03/what-works-be-a-savvy-volunteer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/03/03/what-works-be-a-savvy-volunteer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What Works]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[long-term unemployment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senior Community Service Employment Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteering while unemployed]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With long-term unemployment becoming an excruciating pervasive reality, the challenge for many of us - besides surviving, is elbowing our way back into the workforce. And since as Don Peck pointed out on a recent PBS News Hour, being unemployed for an extended period is comparable to losing one's spouse, one doesn't want to dawdle in this state.

But has it ever been so hard to break in?]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the Downside</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/03/01/notes-from-the-downside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again I&#8217;ve taken to writing as a tonic from the isolation of my study and chronic unemployment. My point here is not to blow my own horn but to open up some dialogue with those of you out there who are caught in the riptides of change and despite daily efforts to rebound seem stuck like mice in a glue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UP for Discussion &#8212; Questions from an Unemployed Professional</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/23/up-for-discussion-questions-from-an-unemployed-professional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/23/up-for-discussion-questions-from-an-unemployed-professional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer boycotts. isolation in the digital age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creating decent employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global job market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following questions were posed by UP member Bruce Reznick. Please add your comments.
1) Do you think that  Obama has the &#8220;goods&#8221; to actually create jobs?
2) Do you think that  your American Dream is over, or not? Explain.
3) Is there a corporate  future in your future, or you children&#8217;s?
4) Does anyone in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/16/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/16/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high unemployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from Atlantic magazine. Click on the link to read entire article.
The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Bows to the Whining of the Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/10/obama-bows-to-the-whining-of-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/10/obama-bows-to-the-whining-of-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from Alternet.org. Click on link to read entire article.
The Heritage Foundation, the right wing’s most lavishly funded think tank, doesn&#8217;t much like the federal budget plan the Obama White House released last week. Heritage hired guns are blasting the Obama   blueprint  for fiscal 2011 as perhaps the “most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have U.S. Workers Priced Themselves Out of the Job Market? Join the Discussion.</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/09/have-u-s-workers-priced-themselves-out-of-the-job-market-join-the-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors Blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American workers priced themselves out of jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[does degree guarantee a career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effect of globalization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[insourced laborers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsourced wages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert-Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term focus of corporate leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student-loan-debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surviving on minimum wage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a recent email conversation between UP board members Karen Watts, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Holland, Cryn Johannsen, Trude Diamond, and Tom Bishop. They want this to be a continuous discussion -- please add your comments!


Karen Watts: I just saw an interview on the financial news about how the "American worker has priced themselves out" of the global job market. Is this perhaps something we should address? If this is the prevailing attitude in the corporate mind I think we have a problem. I know that for me the $1 per article that Indian and Eastern European writers demand would mean a 24 hour work day...and then I'd still be starving. I imagine many other white collar jobs (which was one of the highlights of this discussion) pay similarly horrible wages when outsourced.
Thoughts?]]></description>
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		<title>America’s System Failure: Only a Wave of Democratic Participation Can Save This Country</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/03/america%e2%80%99s-system-failure-only-a-wave-of-democratic-participation-can-save-this-country/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/03/america%e2%80%99s-system-failure-only-a-wave-of-democratic-participation-can-save-this-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[August: Osage County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure of america's political system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Great Unraveling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Lett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from Alternet.org. Click on link to read entire article.
As welcome as it was, the removal of George W. Bush was not enough to cure what ails us. It goes to the root of our political system.
There is a widespread consensus that the decade we&#8217;ve just brought to a close was singularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Incredible Shrinking Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/02/our-incredible-shrinking-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/02/our-incredible-shrinking-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[principles of democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/?p=952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Robert Reich&#8217;s blog via Alternet.org:
I wish conservatives would stop complaining about big government and start worrying about the real problem – small democracy. I wish we’d all worry more about our incredible shrinking democracy.
It seems as if more and more decisions that should be made democratically are being shunted off somewhere to a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Zinn: &#8220;We Should Not Give Up the Game Before All the Cards Have Been Played&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/02/howard-zinn-we-should-not-give-up-the-game-before-all-the-cards-have-been-played/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/2010/02/02/howard-zinn-we-should-not-give-up-the-game-before-all-the-cards-have-been-played/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[changing the world]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/?p=950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from Alternet.org. Click on link to read entire article.

Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society.
 
February 2, 2010 &#124;




In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed [...]]]></description>
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