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<title><![CDATA[Alana Semuels - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23870.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alana Semuels]]></description><category domain="23870">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[For Many Aging Workers, 'Retirement Is a Distant Dream']]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/7260357/aging-workforce/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Retirement is a distant dream']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economy Is Great. The Middle Class Is Mad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-economy-is-great-the-middle-class-is-mad/ar-AAWGAQK?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jeff Swope felt the first spurt of anger bubble up when he learned in February that his landlord was raising the rent on the empty two-bedroom apartment next door by more than 30%, to $2,075 a month.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Is Rising. A Stuffed Toy Shows Why]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/why-everything-more-expensive-now-100038255.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Follow a giraffe from China to San Francisco to understand just how clogged the supply chain is]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Covid-19 Helped Grow Amazon's Power]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5870826/amazon-coronavirus-jeff-bezos-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made billions during the COVID-19 pandemic as retail stores suffered, heightening calls among critics to break up the online giant]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Life Is Like for Millions Facing Financial Ruin]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5833008/us-unemployment-coronavirus/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus has exposed the fragility of America's safety net]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amazon's HQ2 Will Worsen America's 'Great Divergence']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/amazons-hq2-will-stress-housing-markets-ny-and-dc/575806/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the End of Public-Sector Unions in America?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/janus-afscme-public-sector-unions/563879/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite a crippling decision by the Supreme Court, unions say they have a plan forward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago's Awful Divide]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/chicago-segregation-poverty/556649/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Americans hear a lot these days about the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s urban-rural divide. Rural counties are poorer; urban ones richer. Rural areas are losing jobs; urban ones are gaining them. People with a college education are leaving rural areas. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re moving to urban places.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Small Town Kept Walmart Out. Now It Faces Amazon.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/amazon-local-retail/554681/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[GREENFIELD, Mass.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Al Norman has been fighting to keep Walmart and other big-box retailers out of small towns like this one for 25 years. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been successful in Greenfield, his hometown and the site of his first battle with Walmart, and in dozens of other towns across the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Robots Will Transform Fast Food]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/iron-chefs/546581/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Visitors to henn-na,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a restaurant outside Nagasaki, Japan, are greeted by a peculiar sight: their food being prepared by a row of humanoid robots that bear a passing resemblance to the Terminator. The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'head chef,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' incongruously named Andrew, specializes in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' okonomiyaki, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Neverending Foreclosure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/the-neverending-foreclosure/547181/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[GLENDORA, California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'In retrospect, refinancing their home was a bad idea. But the Santillan family never thought that it would lead them to foreclosure, or that they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d spend years bouncing among hotels and living in their car. The parents, Karina and Juan, never thought it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making the Machines That Replace Humans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/robot-factory-yaskawa/528357/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MIAMISBURG, Ohio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'A humanoid robot greets visitors to the Dayton-area offices of Yaskawa Motoman, a Japanese company that produces the machines being installed at thousands of factories around the globe. Its right arm is holding a screen, which playfully challenges visitors to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-parts-of-america-most-susceptible-to-automation/525168/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economists expect that millions of American jobs are going to be replaced by automation in the coming decades. But where will those job losses take place? Which areas will be hardest hit?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/manufacturing-marriage-family/518280/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In many small towns across the country, there aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t very many good jobs these days. Once there were factories that employed millions and paid decent wages. Today, young men are scraping by working at local bars or in lower-paid temp jobs. Many of these men are single, and new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Great Divergence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/americas-great-divergence/514784/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CONNERSVILLE, Indiana'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Ashley Gabbert and Dan Dark are both white Indiana residents in their early 30s, but their lives look nothing alike.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Role of Highways in American Poverty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Little Rock is a fascinating city. With its river and renovated warehouses and bustling River Market district, it reminds me a little bit of Pittsburgh, where I lived a decade ago when I was starting my journalism career. At that time, Pittsburgh was still the butt of many jokes, though...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Working Class Reflects Challenge for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ohio-jobs-20120103,0,1894862.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alana Semuels</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reg Rozell and Kim C. Sweitzer seem like they'd be sure-fire Obama 2012 supporters.Both have good-paying union jobs at a busy steel mill here and are benefiting from a manufacturing surge that's keeping their employer operating three shifts and granting overtime to whoever wants it.But...]]></description>
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