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<title><![CDATA[Nina Easton - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15570.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nina Easton]]></description><category domain="15570">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How ISIS Is Turning Women Into Brutal Enforcers]]></title>
							<link>http://fortune.com/2015/05/05/isis-women-recruiting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Terrorist group ISIS in drawing massive numbers of female recruits, and using them as morality enforcers, propagandists, even overseers of rape. We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence. The rise of ISIS, however, which is drawing female recruits from around...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Are Driving Hispanic Voters Away]]></title>
							<link>http://fortune.com/2014/08/14/electoral-madness-gop-hispanic-voters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The obstructionist wing threatens not only immigration reform, but electoral prospects for generations to come.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Will Be a Big Problem for Dems in 2014]]></title>
							<link>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/27/obamacare-democrats-senate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2014 mid-term elections are looming, and swing-state Democrats are nervous. Meanwhile, the White House is scrambling to minimize its Obamacare-inflicted hardships on Americans through a growing list of exemptions and delays. Will it be enough to keep the Senate in Democratic hands?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Attitude Toward Adoption]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-mothers-day-plea-to-stop-equating-adoption-with-abandonment/2013/05/10/088c6362-b692-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In today&rsquo;s America, a single woman facing a surprise pregnancy is likely to consider just two options: abortion or single motherhood. The third choice, adoption, carries such a social stigma that domestic placement of infants has plummeted &mdash; even as the number of parents...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Silent Job Killer: Our Unemployment System]]></title>
							<link>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/19/the-silent-job-killer-our-unemployment-system/?iid=SF_F_River</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hemingway Apparel, located in a rural former cotton town a hundred miles east of South Carolina's capitol, should be the kind of small business that government nurtures. In a county where the unemployment rate hovers near 12%, the factory employs low-skilled workers who don't have a lot...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame the 1% for America's Pay Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/24/pay-gap-rich-poor/?hpt=hp_c1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if I told you that there was a group of hard-driving workaholics who tend to have advanced degrees and bring a level of talent and skill to their jobs that attracts premium pay in the global economy? Scholars have found that this group is more likely than much of the population to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harsh Truths About the Nation's Unemployment]]></title>
							<link>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/24/washington-needs-to-wake-up-to-the-jobs-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Obama's fall campaign to tackle the jobs crisis sounds familiar, that's because it is. This President has talked about jobs more than 200 times since taking office. He signed an $820 billion stimulus package to buy (mostly public sector) jobs, followed by an $18 billion jobs package...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Labor Union Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/30/news/economy/obama_labor_unions.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How many ways are there to sidestep Congress' refusal to make it  easier for unions to organize? Let us count them. No, better than that,  let's add yet another example -- this one involving Delta Airlines -- to  the growing pile of end-runs around Congress to reward a constituency  this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Daley: Obama's Business Whisperer]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/16/news/companies/bill_daley_barack_obama_business_ties.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Daley doesn't tweet. He's not a big fan of e-mail. When Daley wants to connect, he picks up the phone and, depending on the situation, proceeds to cajole, console, commiserate, counsel -- or some combination thereof. It is a skill he's honed in more than two decades as a counselor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation: Poison for Obama in 2012]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/09/news/economy/obama_inflation_threat.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the  foot of the hill below my Southern California high school -- car lines  snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's  price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing. That also was  the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In U.S.-China Talks, Who Has the Upper Hand?]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/17/news/economy/china_hu_jintao.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If President Hu Jintao's visit to the White House this week follows those outlines, as is likely, it will mask a brewing crisis in U.S.-China co-dependence: A complex and invidious Chinese industrial policy that threatens to cut U.S. firms out of the trillions Beijing is spending on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Were Clear: They Oppose Obama's Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/03/news/economy/Its_not_the_economy_stupid_midterm_election.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In fact, the economy was only part of the equation. Deep dissatisfaction with President Obama's agenda -- and especially healthcare reform, his signature achievement, and one that has nothing to do with emergencies caused by the financial crisis -- fueled the intensity that has now given...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fat Cat Pensions: Seeds of a New Rebellion Forming]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/29/news/economy/pension_populist_anger.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as we watch a populist revolt against the risk-taking rich continue to play out this election season, there are seeds of a new rebellion forming -- against the generous pensions guaranteed to state and local workers.Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Legislating 'Too-Big-to-Fail']]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/21/news/economy/financial_reform.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But the success of this enterprise, he said over dinner, depended on whether lawmakers could agree on how resolve the "too big to fail" conundrum: How to do you prevent massive, risk-taking financial firms from blackmailing American taxpayers into rescuing them because of their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Souring on Obama's Era of Big Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1945357,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For President Obama, the era of big Government is not over. "It is true, we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or generate long-term growth," he proclaimed in his first budget to Congress. But "at this particular moment, government must lead the way." A partial Obama to-do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Citizens Are Wary of Making Health System Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/20/news/economy/obama_health_care_miscalculate.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009082009</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It would be different this time. That's been the conventional wisdom 15 years after the defeat of First Lady Hillary Clinton's ambitious plan, which badly shook her husband's young presidency.This time, industry players were at the negotiating table from the outset, instead of plotting a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Goals Could Put New Burdens on Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/28/news/economy/health_care_carbon_stimulus.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009072811</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama promised universal health care and a mass conversion to green energy when he launched his presidential campaign. On that frigid February day in 2007, the economy was growing at a 2.8% clip. Obama stuck to the same promises a year later when he won Iowa, as the housing market...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: How to Get Business Going]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/17/news/companies/obama_business.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Messy Free-Trade Message]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/magazines/fortune/power_play.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009031814</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Geithner Needs to Lure Hungry Investors]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/13/news/economy/geithner.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009031310</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Keep the Democrats in Line?]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/06/news/economy/Obama_budget.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009030610</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Fortune) -- President Obama's "new era of responsibility" has already drawn criticism as a magician's math act: Add a trillion-dollar universal health care plan to a trillion-dollar (including interest) stimulus package to another quarter-trillion for bank bailouts to 7%...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Proposes a Breathlessly Ambitious Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/25/news/economy/obama_speech.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009022510</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Obama's Economic Crusade]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/13/news/economy/easton_economicteam.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009021310</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Economy: An Expensive Leap of Faith]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/20/news/economy/obama_inauguration.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009012008</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Severity of Crisis May Get Geithner Confirmed]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/magazines/fortune/easton_geithner_fear.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009011415</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fear vs. outrage.Those are the two primal emotions at war in the hearts and minds of lawmakers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unions: Obama's 'Gays in the Military' Moment?]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/magazines/fortune/card_check.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008121912</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. (Fortune) -- Will he, or won't he dare? That was the question that consumed an otherwise social luncheon of Republican women at the White House last week.The "he" was President-elect Obama and the subject was "card check," a union organizing tool that is already igniting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama, CEO in Chief]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/07/news/easton_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008110713</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel: Pit Bull Politician]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/06/news/newsmakers/emanuel_easton.fortune/?postversion=2008110613</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Main Street Turns Against Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/26/news/economy/easton_backlash.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008092811</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Obama Means for Business]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/20/magazines/fortune/easton_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008062311</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nina Easton</author>
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