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							<title><![CDATA[Unions Intensify Attacks on New Emerging Free-Trade Pact]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just over two decades after lobbying unsuccessfully against the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S. labor unions are again voicing strong reservations to a proposed major trade-liberalization deal.
At issue now is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a measure expected...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama to Outline Strategy on Islamic State]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama plans to begin laying out his strategy for defeating Islamic State militants expanding their grip in Iraq and Syria.
He'll outline his evolving tactics when he meets with congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Tuesday and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Overtime Plan Already Stirring Controversy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's move to make more workers eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay is being hailed by Democrats who see it as a potent midterm election issue and condemned by Republicans and business leaders as presidential overreach. Supporters say it will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Social Security, Medicare Still Face Big Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/31/social_security_medicare_still_face_big_challenge_118629.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the U.S. recovery slowly gathers steam, federal deficits are finally coming down from their nosebleed $1 trillion-plus heights. That will postpone until fall a new budget showdown between Congress and the White House - and also will probably delay the days of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Gains May Not Help Dems in 2014]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidents like to take credit for economic recoveries, just as President Barack Obama is angling to do now.
He and his allies in Congress have "walked the economy back from the brink," his new 2014 federal budget blueprint asserts. And Democrats hope these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economy Is the Driving Issue in Election]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- The race for the White House is pretty much back where it started, after thousands of ads, billions of dollars in spending, two conventions and three presidential debates. Despite some detours, the emphasis is heavily on the nation's lukewarm economy and President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Romney Moving Toward the End Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/18/obama_romney_moving_toward_the_end_game_115826.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As campaign days dwindle, candidates quicken their pace. Every audience becomes extremely important, rallies usually become larger, noisier and more energetic and campaign travel becomes busier and focused on key battleground states &mdash; where political television ads now blare nearly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deficits to Be Hot Topic in First Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/01/deficits_to_be_hot_topic_in_first_debate_115630.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As both presidential candidates dug in for debate preparations, a new budget year began Monday with little fanfare, resetting the federal deficit clock to once again begin its steep annual ascent.
The economy's painfully slow recovery and soaring deficits will be major topics in Denver...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Debt: America Faces a Sea of Red Ink]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/25/america_faces_a_sea_of_red_ink_115571.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(AP) -- The issue: A sea of red ink is confronting the nation and presidents to come.
The budget deficit - the shortfall created when the government spends more in a given year than it collects in taxes and fees- is on track to top $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. When there's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Report Looms Over Democratic Convention]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/04/jobs_report_looms_over_democratic_convention_115317.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney enjoyed just a small-to-modest bounce in the polls from his party's convention. President Barack Obama has to worry about getting a big downer the day after his convention.
On Friday, the Labor Department announces unemployment data for August. The last report showed the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Romney Busy Trying to Define Each Other]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/15/obama_romney_busy_trying_to_define_each_other_114161.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are working hard at this stage of the campaign to paint each other in as stark and unattractive colors as possible.
Through Romney's prism, Obama is seen as a big-spending liberal partisan who is clueless on how to revive the economy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AP-GfK Poll: Views on Economy, Obama Role Sour]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/25/ap-gfk_poll_views_on_economy_obama_role_sour_111086.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans' views on the economy have dimmed this summer. But so far, the growing pessimism doesn't seem to be taking a toll on President Barack Obama's re-election prospects.
More people now believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, a new Associated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Running Out of Tools to Fight Recession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2010/Jul/02/analysis__tools_for_battling_recession_diminished.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just when they might be needed the most, the rescue ropes that hauled the nation out of the Great Recession have become badly frayed.A much-feared "double dip" economic downturn would find interest rates already slashed to near zero by the Federal Reserve and lawmakers leery of voting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US Debt to Keep Growing Even with Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2010/Feb/14/us_debt_will_keep_growing_even_with_recovery.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Raum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's bad enough that Greece's debt problems have rattled global financial markets. In the world's largest economic and military power, there's a far more serious debt dilemma.For the U.S., the crushing weight of its debt threatens to overwhelm everything the federal government does, even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Ambitious Plans Raise Questions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2009/Mar/07/analysis__obama_s_ambitious_plans_raise_questions.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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