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	<title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Math: Pre-WWII New Deal Saw Biggest Drop In Unemployment Rate in History]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-forgotten-math-pre-ww_b_155728.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>On Christmas Eve, I appeared on Fox News to discuss the upcoming economic recovery package, only to be told that FDR's New Deal "prolonged the Great Depression" (you can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rBiGj2kbE">watch the clip here</a>). This is the latest consevative talking point - one specifically aimed at stopping President Obama and the new Congress from passing a New Deal-sized package of public spending.</p>

<p>And so after appearing on Fox, I decided to devote <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008587334_opin05sirota.html">my first newspaper column in the New Year</a>...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-01-06T17:38:00-05:00</date_published>
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