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	<title>Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate</title>
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	<description>An Economist's Travelogue</description>
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		<title>If I Were a Rich Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the great populist Huey Long was campaigning for governor of Louisiana, he wrote some clever slogans and songs. One song began: &#8220;Every man a king, for you can be a millionaire.&#8221; Back then, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the word &#8220;millionaire&#8221; meant that a person was rich beyond the dreams of mere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fools&#8217; Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was channel surfing a few months ago, I stopped to watch a new Discovery Channel reality show called Gold Rush. Since then I have seen every episode. The show is now in its second season, and it is one of this network’s most popular programs. &#8220;Reality&#8221; is a misnomer since Gold Rush is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Farmworkers Are Still Poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (New York: Verso), 742pp, hardcover, $54.95.* Frank Bardacke labored over this book for fifteen years. We can be grateful that he didn’t give up. This is the best history ever written of the United Farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street and the U.S. Labor Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street Uprising and the U.S. Labor Movement: An Interview with Steve Early, Jon Flanders, Stephanie Luce, and Jim Straub by Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates The Occupy Wall Street Uprising has taken the nation by storm, beginning in the Financial District in Manhattan and then spreading to cities and towns in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street and the Celebrity Economists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street movement has transfixed the nation. In just a few weeks, it has spread from Manhattan to hundreds of towns and cities, and it has now taken root in other countries. It has focused the widespread anger that we feel toward a tiny group of extraordinarily rich individuals (the 1%) who have [...]]]></description>
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