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	<title><![CDATA[New Report Reveals Why GOP Hates Unions: They Raise Wages, Boost Economy]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/new-report-reveals-why-go_b_168132.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p> The <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/18/republican_obstinacy_hows_it_working/">Hoover-like GOP</a> has been working overtime to <a href="http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/story.cfm?id=10472">oppose</a> President Obama's stimulus package while hoping <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/20/limbaugh-obama-fail/">he fails</a>. Meanwhile, a <a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2009/02/efca_factsheets.html">report </a>released yesterday by the Center for American Progress Action Fund essentially underscores the real reasons Republicans and the business community have taken another equally short-sighted economic stance: fighting workers' right to organize. As <em><a href="http://www.seiu.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&amp;tag=union%20workers&amp;limit=20">Unions Are Good For the American Economy</a></em> points out with irrefutable statistics, unionization raises wages <em>and</em> boosts the economy because it...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-19T04:47:00-05:00</date_published>
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