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	<title>UDW - The Homecare Providers Union &#187; Editorials</title>
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	<description>AFSCME Local 3930 / AFL-CIO</description>
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		<title>Dan Morain: ‘Reform’ initiative wears a soiled white hat</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/dan-morain-%e2%80%98reform%e2%80%99-initiative-wears-a-soiled-white-hat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stop Special Interests Now Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Morain, Senior editor The Sacramento Bee Published: Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 &#8211; 12:00 am &#124; Page 11A The latest initiative to qualify for the 2012 ballot is thick with the earnest rhetoric of white-hat-wearing good government reformers. It&#8217;s also &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/dan-morain-%e2%80%98reform%e2%80%99-initiative-wears-a-soiled-white-hat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In-home health care a bargain for taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/in-home-health-care-a-bargain-for-taxpayers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[In-Home Supportive Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persons with disabilities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trigger Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE HERALD&#8217;S VIEW, The Monterey County Herald 12/15/2011 Reasonable arguments can be made against each of the &#8220;trigger cuts&#8221; that Gov. Jerry Brown plans as part of California&#8217;s midyear budget balancing act. All will be painful to one segment of &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/in-home-health-care-a-bargain-for-taxpayers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Public or Private: Unemployment Hurts the Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/public-or-private-unemployment-hurts-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doug Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UDW Executive Director]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Huffington Post Los Angeles, December 6, 2011 Doug Moore Executive Director, UDW Homecare Providers Union When Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich proposed that students should take over the job of cleaning our schools, he was rightly denounced for wanting to &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/public-or-private-unemployment-hurts-the-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Violent Attrition to a Burgeoning Program</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/violent-attrition-to-a-burgeoning-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/violent-attrition-to-a-burgeoning-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IHSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Net]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial written by Nancy Becker Kennedy Submitted to the LA Times. According to Washington Post and Bloomberg news &#8220;IBM’s Benchmark research firm found that online spending was 33 percent higher than the same period last year and was 29.3 percent higher &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/12/violent-attrition-to-a-burgeoning-program/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Pay for Hard Work</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/fair-pay-for-hard-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home care providers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times, November 28, 2011 Something akin to justice may finally be at hand for the nation’s nearly two million home care aides. It has been four years since the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Evelyn Coke, who then &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/fair-pay-for-hard-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>$600 million more for jails; $600 million less for education and health</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/600-million-more-for-jails-600-million-less-for-education-and-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/600-million-more-for-jails-600-million-less-for-education-and-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Analyst Office report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budget Defecit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Press TV, Thu Nov 17, 2011 By Isaac Ontiveros Photo Credit: Press TV On Wednesday, California&#8217;s Legislative Analyst Office released grim news about the State&#8217;s financial health.  The nonpartisan office projects a $13 billion deficit for 2012, and $3.7 billion &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/600-million-more-for-jails-600-million-less-for-education-and-health/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury News editorial: Brown should call Legislature back to find ways to avert trigger cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/mercury-news-editorial-brown-should-call-legislature-back-to-find-ways-to-avert-trigger-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/mercury-news-editorial-brown-should-call-legislature-back-to-find-ways-to-avert-trigger-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Governor Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trigger Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mercury News Editorial Posted: 11/16/2011   So, Gov. Jerry Brown, what&#8217;s the plan now? The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst&#8217;s Office on Wednesday released its budget forecast for this year and beyond. The grim bottom line: Revenue for the current fiscal year is &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/mercury-news-editorial-brown-should-call-legislature-back-to-find-ways-to-avert-trigger-cuts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Will Care For The Caregiver?</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/who-will-care-for-the-caregiver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/who-will-care-for-the-caregiver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Woodruff, Huffington Post, November 11, 2011   On April 19, 2005, Debbie Schulz of Friendswood, Texas, got the call every parent of a service member in Iraq and Afghanistan dreads. Her child had been wounded. When she hung up the &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/11/who-will-care-for-the-caregiver/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/tell-your-senators-to-vote-yes-for-the-teachers-first-responders-back-to-work-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/tell-your-senators-to-vote-yes-for-the-teachers-first-responders-back-to-work-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nelsy Bork</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of families are out of work – or face that threat like never before. However, middle-class jobs are held hostage by Republican leaders – who blocked President Obama&#8217;s “American Jobs Act” last week. It&#8217;s simply appalling – I can&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/tell-your-senators-to-vote-yes-for-the-teachers-first-responders-back-to-work-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the GOP Won’t Vote on the American Jobs Act</title>
		<link>http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/why-the-gop-won%e2%80%99t-vote-on-the-american-jobs-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/why-the-gop-won%e2%80%99t-vote-on-the-american-jobs-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>UDW Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congressman Eric Cantor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   By Gerald W. McEntee, President AFSCME International    Published on the Daily Kos website On Tuesday, the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia, told the press that he would not schedule a &#8230; <a href="http://www.udwa.org/2011/10/why-the-gop-won%e2%80%99t-vote-on-the-american-jobs-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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