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		    <title><![CDATA[Wonder Down Under]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254521&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[We wish newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his party good luck in office, and hope his victory represents an international trend.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: Three Ways To Make America Safer]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254511&kaid=131&subid=207]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[New security challenges require completely new thinking. That's why the Progressive Policy Institute has released three new reports taking on particularly thorny challenges. ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: Making Work Pay For Men]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254505&kaid=131&subid=207]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[For millions of poor women and their children, the great welfare reform experiment of the 1990s was a tremendous success -- inspiring a dramatic increase in work participation as well as a dramatic reduction in poverty. The next big step in ending poverty as we know it is to inspire and expect the same from men. ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: A Free Trade Agreement With Peru]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254492&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Shaped by Reps. Charles Rangel and Sandy Levin, the Free Trade Agreement with Peru strikes a good balance between traditional market-opening measures and progressive social goals. ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: Building Coalitions To Deal With the Budget Crisis]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254482&kaid=131&subid=207]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[To dramatize the budget crisis, and begin building an atmosphere for cross-partisan solutions, the Progressive Policy Institute has reached out to the conservative Heritage Foundation, the independent New America Foundation, and the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to host a joint event tomorrow in Washington, co-chaired by Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: Three Reforms For the Housing Market]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254481&kaid=131&subid=207]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[In a new Progressive Policy Institute report, Paul Weinstein Jr. offers three immediate steps that could offer relief to struggling homeowners and help for new homebuyers, and for the housing market as a whole.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Trade, Technology, and Middle-Class Jobs]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254473&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Getting the basic facts straight on the actual impact of trade and technology on middle class jobs is more important than ever. That's why the Progressive Policy Institute has just published two important papers on the subject.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Well Deserved]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254471&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[We are happy to congratulate Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their
receipt of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Bush's Dishonest Case For Vetoing S-CHIP]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254458&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Though it was hardly a surprise, President Bush's veto of bipartisan legislation reauthorizing and improving the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) was still breathtaking in the fundamental dishonesty of the case he made for his action. ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Elephants With Very Short Memories]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254453&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[It's time to end the fiscal madness, and a good starting point is to expose the GOP's ludicrous efforts to claim the mantle of fiscal sanity.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: Letting All Homeowners Benefit from Mortgage Interest Deduction]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254447&kaid=131&subid=207]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Making mortage interest deductions available to taxpayers who don't itemize their returns would provide tax relief to low- and middle-income families who want a piece of the American Dream. ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Democrats Getting Health Care Right]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254444&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[With the public increasingly demanding action on health care in response to ever-rising premiums and steady erosions in coverage, it's clear Democrats, and only Democrats, are rising to the challenge.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Bush Buys Time, But For What?]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254440&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As in so many issues, the Bush administration appears to be buying time for no particular purpose beyond refusing to admit mistakes and change course, at a horrendous cost in life and treasure, and in the opportunity to end the Iraq war in a way that promotes a viable Iraqi state, and U.S. security objectives as well.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[Idea of the Week: Stopping Tainted Food At the Border]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254438&kaid=131&subid=207]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This week, the Progressive Policy Institute released a major new report on imported food safety which offers a clear four-part plan for radically improving inspections.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[State and Local Playbook: New Incentives for Solar Power]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254429&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The California Solar Initiative is based on the simple premise of offering consumers rebates on their electricity bills for the installation of solar panels on their rooftops.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[State and Local Playbook: Expanding Learning Time in Schools]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254426&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A number of school districts, and at least one state, have been experimenting with very different school calendars designed to meet 21st century needs.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[State and Local Playbook: Talking Globalization]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254420&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As part of its State and Local Playbook series, the DLC is developing Policy Briefs that synthesize a number of ideas and messages tackling specific issues. One such Brief addresses the challenges of Today's Global Economy. ]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[National Conversation 2007: News From The Real World]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254409&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The DLC's 11th Annual National Conversation in Nashville offered a vibrant discussion of the progressive ideas being developed across America to meet the big national challenges so often ignored or botched in Washington.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[A Missed Opportunity For Reform]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254404&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This week's House vote on U.S. Rep. Ron Kind's amendment to the farm bill was a missed opportunity to reform agricultural policy.]]></description>
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		    <title><![CDATA[The Ideas Primary Is On]]></title>
		    <link><![CDATA[http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254401&kaid=131&subid=192]]></link>
		    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[After several weeks of fine tuning, the DLC has formally relaunched its Ideas Primary Web site to make it the "go-to" place for everything related to the policy side of the 2008 election contests. ]]></description>
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