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<title><![CDATA[Neil Irwin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16001.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Neil Irwin]]></description><category domain="16001">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Proposed Tax on Billionaires Raises Question: What's Income?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/upshot/biden-tax-billionaires.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are homing in on unrealized capital gains raises as a way to help fund their social spending bill.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Fed Cut Rates: To Try to Fix Last Year's Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/upshot/why-fed-cut-rates.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not a recession-fighting measure per se, but a recalibration of strategy, and a recognition that the world has changed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Booming Jobs, Low Inflation: This Wasn't Supposed to Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/upshot/unemployment-inflation-changing-economic-fundamentals.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe using data from a few decades in the middle of the 20th century to set policy in the 21st isn't such a good idea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biggest Economic Challenge for U.S. May Be Demographic Decline]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/upshot/americas-biggest-economic-challenge-may-be-demographic-decline.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change's Giant Impact on the Economy: 4 Key Issues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/upshot/how-to-think-about-the-costs-of-climate-change.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many of the big economic questions in coming decades will come down to just how extreme the weather will be, and how to value the future versus the present.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Policymakers Saved Financial System--&amp; U.S. Never Forgave Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/upshot/financial-crisis-recession-recovery.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to overstate how deeply Americans despised their government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s response to the global financial crisis. It has helped shape the last decade of American politics, fueling distrust of powerful institutions and speeding a drift toward ideological extremes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Republican Tax Bill Be Aimed at the Past, or the Future?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/upshot/will-the-republican-tax-bill-be-aimed-at-the-economic-past-or-the-future.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress and the Trump administration are said to be hard at work creating a tax bill, aiming for a signature economic policy achievement in the months ahead. As they do so, there is a fundamental tension they will have to resolve: Is this tax legislation about the past, or about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Offering Populism, Minus the Free Candy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/upshot/trump-is-offering-populism-minus-the-free-candy.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The thing about populism is it usually involves doing things that are popular. This is something that European nationalists and Latin American strongmen have long known. When they come to power, they aim to deliver concrete benefits to their supporters, even at the cost of their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tax Overhaul Is Great in Theory, Hard in Practice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/upshot/a-tax-overhaul-would-be-great-in-theory-heres-why-its-so-hard-in-practice.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Republicans have an ambitious plan for overhauling the way American businesses are taxed. A short list of the plan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s potential benefits looks awesome: It would give companies more incentive to keep jobs in the United States, less to overextend themselves on borrowed money and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Major Potential Impact of a Corporate Tax Overhaul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/upshot/the-major-potential-impact-of-a-corporate-tax-overhaul.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States system for taxing businesses is a mess. If there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s one thing nearly everyone can agree upon, it is that. The current corporate income tax manages the weird trick of both taxing companies at a higher statutory rate than other advanced countries while collecting less...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Trashes NAFTA, But Undoing It Would Come at Huge Cost]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/upshot/donald-trump-trashes-nafta-but-unwinding-it-would-come-at-a-huge-cost.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you buy an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'American-made'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' car, you are probably buying a car that has an immensely complicated mix of components that were also made in Mexico and Canada. The same is true for many electronics, and advanced textiles like carpeting. The beef in your grocery store might be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/upshot/were-in-a-low-growth-world-how-did-we-get-here.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary's Message: Yes, the Economy's Messed Up. But I Can Fix It.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/upshot/hillary-clinton-campaign.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been a year dominated by populist rage, embodied in Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s calls for a political revolution and Donald J. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s angry assertions that the United States, and its workers, are losing badly in the global economy.In an economic policy speech on Wednesday, Hillary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How's the Economy Doing? It May Depend on Your Party &amp; $1]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/upshot/how-is-the-economy-doing-politics-may-decide-your-answer.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Suppose it is dinnertime, and the phone rings. It is a polite survey taker with a simple question for you: How is the economy doing?You might answer the question based upon the news stories you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve seen recently about the latest unemployment rate, or perhaps based on anecdotal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Economy Really in Trouble?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/upshot/is-the-economy-really-in-trouble.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I write about economics for a living. Part of my job is to look into the maw of economic data, financial market indicators, anecdotal reports from businesses and whatever else I can get my hands on, and turn it all into a crisp, clear narrative about the United States and global...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2015 Was to Be the Year of Bigger Wage Gains. It's Not.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/upshot/this-was-to-be-the-year-of-bigger-wage-gains-its-not.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate is low by any historical standard at 5.1 percent. Businesses are complaining of worker shortages in industries like health care, construction and trucking. Household-name companies like Walmart and McDonald'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s have announced increases to their pay for low-wage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Global Markets Are So Turbulent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/why-global-financial-markets-are-going-crazy.html?_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, global financial markets were churning, but it really only mattered if you were an oil trader, Chinese bureaucrat or hedge fund manager.Now it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s starting to get scary for everyone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem w/China's Efforts to Prop Up Its Market]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/upshot/the-problem-with-chinas-efforts-to-prop-up-its-stock-market.html?_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Repeat after me: The stock market is not the economy. And the economy is not the stock market.That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the central, crucial idea to sound economic policy that seems to be missing from China'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s increasingly frantic efforts to prop up its plummeting stock market. It dropped another...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Europe Make an Example of Greece?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/upshot/now-europe-must-decide-whether-to-make-an-example-of-greece.html?abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years now, it has seemed to any reasonably informed outsider that something was going to have to give in Greece. You surely couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have an economy in depression for five years and counting, in a democracy, without the people demanding a different approach, consequences be what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Next Few Days Could Transform Greece &amp; Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/upshot/the-next-few-days-will-transform-greece-and-europe.html?_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, the Greek crisis ends not with a bang, but with a referendum.It has been easy to ignore the doings in Greece for the last few years, with the perpetual series of summits in Brussels that never seem to resolve anything. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to pay attention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Make of a Topsy-Turvy Bond Market]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/upshot/what-to-make-of-the-topsy-turvy-bond-market.html?_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Don't Want to Soak the Rich]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/upshot/why-americans-dont-want-to-soak-the-rich.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gruber Controversy &amp; DC's Dirty Little Secret]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/upshot/the-jonathan-gruber-controversy-and-washingtons-dirty-little-secret.html?abt=0002&amp;abg=0&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Suppose that Congress decides that everyone in America should have an iPhone. There are two ways it can do this:1) The government could allocate money to buy all Americans iPhones.2) The government could require that everybody buy an iPhone but create a tax credit equivalent to the price...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[6 Years Later, We're Still Litigating the Bailouts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/upshot/six-years-later-were-still-litigating-the-bailouts-heres-what-we-know.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Middle Class Isn't Buying Talk of Good Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/upshot/why-the-middle-class-isnt-buying-talk-about-economic-good-times.html?rref=upshot&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For five years, the United States economy has been expanding at a steady clip, the stock market soaring, the headlines filled with talk of recovery. Yet public opinion polling shows most Americans still think the economy is pretty miserable.What might account for the paradox? New data...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Beginning of the End for the Redskins?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/upshot/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-redskins-team-name.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We can only guess the exact volume and color of the steam coming out of Daniel Snyder'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ears right about now. Wednesday morning, the United States Patent and Trademark Office canceled the trademark for the Washington Redskins, the pro football team that Mr. Snyder owns '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Easy Money Creating a New Wave of Bubbles?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/11/is-easy-money-creating-a-new-wave-of-bubbles/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trillions of new dollars, euros, yen and pounds are sloshing around the global financial system, a result of extraordinary efforts by the leading central banks over the last several years to try to yank their economies out of their long slump. And it has to go somewhere. Will that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Central Bankers Saved the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/three-days-that-saved-the-world-financial-system/2013/03/28/d5b9a38c-94ef-11e2-b6f0-a5150a247b6a_story.html?hpid=z1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The BlackBerrys all started buzzing, just before dinner was to begin at the Palacio da Bacalhoa, a 15th-century estate outside Lisbon. The 21 men and one woman charged with charting the course of Europe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economy looked down to find startling news that evening of May 6, 2010.Across...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Great News on Jobs: 236K Added to Payrolls]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/08/great-news-on-jobs-unemployment-rate-falls-to-7-7-236k-added-to-payrolls/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest report on the state of the U.S. job market offered good news all around, the best reading in months on the state of the economy.Jobs? There were 236,000 more of them on U.S. employers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' payrolls in February than in January. The unemployment rate? Down to 7.7 percent, from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov't Keeps Saying  a Recovery Is Just Around the Corner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/19/forecasters-keep-thinking-theres-a-recovery-just-around-the-corner-theyre-always-wrong/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Neil Irwin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They say that the essence of futility is to keep doing the same thing while expecting a different result. But is that what key government forecasters are doing in determining their outlook for the economy?Throughout the halting economic recovery that began in 2009, the formal economic...]]></description>
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