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		<title>GOP disappoints big-business backers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010 and again in 2012, companies on Main Street and Wall Street did just about everything they could to help Republicans win elected office in Washington. But this week, many of those Republicans ignored pleas from corporate America and let the government shut down, potentially harming a fragile economy and causing more of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law may lead to disparities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half a century ago, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid was a triumph of American egalitarianism. Within a decade, the United States went from a country where 1 in 3 people lacked health insurance to a nation where just 1 in 10 went without coverage. President Barack Obama has similar ambitions for the Affordable Care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama draws line in sand on health law, debt ceiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the chagrin of many in his own party, President Barack Obama has almost always been willing to negotiate &#8212; on taxes, on spending, even on the social safety net. But in the current fights over a potential government shutdown and the debt limit, the Democratic president has decided where he will draw the line. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allies wage behind-the-scenes effort in Fed job push</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Summers, one of the top candidates to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve, was being beaten up, and his friends from his White House years wanted to help him. So earlier this month, recently departed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other former officials in the administration of President Barack Obama joined Summers for a private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Obama, racial progress tied to economic woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has only occasionally used his bully pulpit to confront racial inequality in the U.S., even if race inherently has been a backdrop of his tenure as the nation&#8217;s first black leader. He has, however, made fighting economic inequality a central goal of his presidency, delivering forceful speeches and advocating policies aimed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defense cuts proving to be a paradox for U.S. liberals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberals are increasingly facing a conundrum as the Pentagon experiences the deepest cuts in a generation: The significant reductions in military spending that they have long sought are also taking a huge bite out of economic growth. Liberal lawmakers and others on the left have argued for years that the military budget is bloated and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama pushes immigration reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb  and Rosalind Helderman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Tuesday put the weight of his administration behind efforts to pass legislation allowing many of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship, seeking to build on a rapidly shifting political consensus around the issue. Obama dedicated the first trip of his second term to calling for an [...]]]></description>
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