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<title><![CDATA[Annie Lowrey - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21809.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Annie Lowrey]]></description><category domain="21809">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Program That's Turning Schools Around]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/the-program-that-s-turning-schools-around/ar-AA1Vaa6H</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a chilly day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' before Christmas, Teresa Rivas helped a tween boy pick out a new winter coat. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Get the bigger one, the one with the waterproof layer,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' mijo,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she said, before helping him pull it onto his string-bean frame. Rivas provides guidance counseling at Owen Goodnight...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Private Equity Is Changing Housing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/real-estate/how-private-equity-is-changing-housing/ar-AA1RW3Ug</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have a housing crisis, as you probably, painfully, know. Wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t you like to have someone to blame for it?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Big, Bad, Very Ugly Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-bad-very-ugly-bill-123000769.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The One Big Beautiful Bill Act,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s signature second-term domestic legislative package, is winding its way through Congress. Republicans in the Senate and House are working on their versions, and the president hopes to sign the act into law by Independence Day.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Is Not a Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/new-york-is-not-a-democracy/ar-AA1GBcdg?cvid=2828e958ff014624a4c78d9ed64a33f4&amp;ei=10</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In most parts of the country, this June is a moment of quiescence in the campaign cycle. The president has just been inaugurated. Many House and Senate candidates haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t declared yet. Homes are unmolested by flyers; television watchers are unbothered by advertisements.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Flirting With Economic Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-is-flirting-with-economic-disaster/ar-AA1DbtuN?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crony Crypto Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/crony-crypto-capitalism/ar-AA1AjDgS?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, American taxpayer: You are going all in on crypto.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of the Union Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-rise-of-the-union-right/ar-AA1wHClD?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris and Joe Biden lobbied hard for votes like Tikey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s. The Biden administration increased tariffs on foreign steel and spent hundreds of billions on heavy infrastructure. It supported union drives, stocked the National Labor Relations Board with worker-friendly lawyers,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cost-of-Living Crisis Explains Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-cost-of-living-crisis-explains-everything/ar-AA1tTOVo</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Biden administration passed $3 trillion of legislation aimed at revitalizing the American economy and fostering green, equitable, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'middle-out'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' growth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Nobody Knows What These Bills Are For']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nobody-knows-what-these-bills-are-for/ar-AA1rANLb</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, Catherine did something many other people have done. She ignored a medical bill.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Mad About All the Wrong Costs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/americans-are-mad-about-all-the-wrong-costs/ar-BB1odT6z?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Great Inflation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is, thank goodness, over.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Labor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-future-of-labor/ar-BB1nFEk5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is this the worst moment for the labor movement in recent memory, or the best? That question animated a conversion I recently had with Mary Kay Henry, who just stepped down as the president of the 2-million-member Service Employees International Union, having been an organizer for 43...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Cars Get So Expensive?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/why-did-cars-get-so-expensive/ar-AA1nnSiN</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inflation, finally, has cooled off. Prices have increased 2.5 percent over the past year, down from increases as high as 7 percent during the early pandemic. Rents are high but stabilizing. The cost of groceries is ticking up, not surging, and some goods, such as eggs, are actually...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Spending Way More on Babies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-case-for-spending-way-more-on-babies/ar-BB1ihm9W</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Holding her infant patients, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha felt a deep sense of frustration. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m doing everything I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m supposed to do as a pediatrician,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she told me, describing counseling her patients'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' parents about vaccines, a healthy diet, safe sleeping, and car...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Is Your Fault]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inflation-is-your-fault/ar-AA1kQ9f0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You would think, with prices as high as they are, that Americans would have tempered their enthusiasm for shopping of late; that they would have pulled back spending on luxury items; that they would have sought out budget and basic options, bought smaller packages, fewer things.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Will Never Be a Good Time to Buy a House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/it-will-never-be-a-good-time-to-buy-a-house/ar-AA1ky0hg</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I moved from San Francisco to New York with my dogs, kids, and husband. My family rented an apartment. And once we figured out that we liked it here and wanted to stay, we looked to buy a place.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Is Full and the Housing Market Is To Blame]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/new-york-is-full/ar-AA1fO2V4</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since last spring, roughly 100,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City. This is a city of immigrants, welcoming to immigrants, built by immigrants. People who were born abroad make up a third of New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s population and own more than half of its businesses. Yet the city...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Have To Care About Harvard]]></title>
							<link>https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2023%2F07%2Fraj-chetty-paper-harvard-ivy-league-elite%2F674803%2F</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It creates the super-elite. The super-elite create America.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wrong-Apartment Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-wrong-apartment-problem/ar-AA1ecLu1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Dre on the radio, The Matrix on the big screen, The Sopranos on TV: The year 1999 was wonderful for many reasons, including economic ones.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Turns Out That the Debt Matters After All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/it-turns-out-that-the-debt-matters-after-all/ar-AA1dIe2g</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This feels like a weird question to ask, I admit. The bond market is placid. Voters are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' preoccupied'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' other issues. The many dire things that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' fiscal hawks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' said would happen if we did not shrink the debt a decade ago have not come to pass. And neither party seems to have much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-war-on-poverty-is-over-rich-people-won/ar-AA1bag5n</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-war-on-poverty-is-over-rich-people-won/ar-AA1bag5n]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does Sentience Really Mean?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-does-sentience-really-mean/ar-AA1aTtwB</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-does-sentience-really-mean/ar-AA1aTtwB]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fact that AI isn't alive doesn't mean it can't be sentient, the sociologist Jacy Reese Anthis argues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blue-Collar Workers Left Behind by Green Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-blue-collar-workers-left-behind-by-the-green-economy/ar-AA1amuxQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A California oil refinery shut down during the pandemic. A year later, former employees were not all right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We've Been Measuring the Economy All Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/we-ve-been-measuring-the-economy-all-wrong/ar-AA19YyD0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration made some bold claims about the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which slashed the corporate-tax rate. Larry Kudlow, the head of the former president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s National Economic Council, said it would boost GDP so much that it would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'virtually'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' pay for itself....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley Bank's Failure Is Now Everyone's Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/silicon-valley-bank-s-failure-is-now-everyone-s-problem/ar-AA18tEg0</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/silicon-valley-bank-s-failure-is-now-everyone-s-problem/ar-AA18tEg0]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whispers about insolvency. A bank run. A desperate attempt to raise funds. A bank failure. Market gyrations. Concerns about financial contagion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reason the Recession Hasn't Happened Yet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-reason-the-recession-hasn-t-happened-yet/ar-AA185b4B</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-reason-the-recession-hasn-t-happened-yet/ar-AA185b4B]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite soaring prices and interest rates, businesses and consumers have proved surprisingly resilient.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Housing Shortage Affects Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-housing-shortage-affects-everything/ar-AA17DJ9U</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-housing-shortage-affects-everything/ar-AA17DJ9U]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[High urban rents make life worse for everyone in countless ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Layoffs Contagious?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-are-layoffs-contagious/ar-AA17q2zC</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-are-layoffs-contagious/ar-AA17q2zC]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just because one company is firing employees by the thousands doesn't mean that others should too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-chatgpt-will-destabilize-white-collar-work/ar-AA16yBZM</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI be an exception?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Misery of Being a Big-City Mayor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-misery-of-being-a-big-city-mayor/ar-AA16iFjd</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best job in politics suddenly became a lot more difficult.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[3 Pieces of Good Economic News for the New Year]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/three-pieces-of-good-economic-news-for-the-new-year/ar-AA15Xlj5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Annie Lowrey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bad news'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' you probably already know. Mortgage costs are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' brutal at the moment, putting homeownership out of reach for millions of Americans. The pace of inflation is coming down but remains high, meaning consumer goods keep getting more expensive. Businesses are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bracing for a...]]></description>
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