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		<itunes:summary>Issues that matter and resources for white collar workers of any profession or employment status.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>A Message to Members and Friends from Bill Holland</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/07/13/a-message-to-members-and-friends-from-bill-holland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billholland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[     Thanks to all of you for continuing to share your thoughts and experiences.  One of the main objectives of UP is to provide a forum for people to do exactly that.  The reason is that it is far too easy to feel as though you are alone and others are not experiencing the same [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Message to Members and Friends from Bill Holland", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/07/13/a-message-to-members-and-friends-from-bill-holland/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Universalizing Transition Rights through Guaranteed Income</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/07/12/universalizing-transition-rights-through-guaranteed-income/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/?p=397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ On one typical cold and rainy West Coast winter evening ten years ago, I stood with a small group of mostly union activists handing out leaflets to lined-up moviegoers, urging them to boycott the theatre in solidarity with locked-out union projectionists. I had never been a union member, but was there, as I had also [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Universalizing Transition Rights through Guaranteed Income", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/07/12/universalizing-transition-rights-through-guaranteed-income/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits 13 Weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/07/08/congress-extends-unemployment-benefits-13-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billholland</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a dramatic victory for the 8.5 million out of work Americans, Congress passed an essentially “bulletproof” 13-week extension of unemployment benefits last week.  Given that our economy is now losing 60,000 jobs a month due to lay-offs, job eliminations, and an otherwise sluggish economy, the action was overdue.<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits 13 Weeks", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/07/08/congress-extends-unemployment-benefits-13-weeks/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>‘OC Register’ Outsourcing Some Editing to India</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/28/oc-register-outsourcing-some-editing-to-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/28/oc-register-outsourcing-some-editing-to-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/28/oc-register-outsourcing-some-editing-to-india/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Editor and Publisher:
&#8220;SANTA ANA An Indian company will take over copyediting duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper at the company that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the newspaper confirmed Tuesday.Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8216;OC Register&#8217; Outsourcing Some Editing to India", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/28/oc-register-outsourcing-some-editing-to-india/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>UP Statement of Purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/up-statement-of-purpose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/up-statement-of-purpose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Background
United Professionals grew out of Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s 2006 book, Bait and Switch: the (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, on white-collar unemployment.  On her book tour, Barbara met legions of people who had personally experienced what she had written about. They kept asking, &#8220;What can be done to protect the white-collar middle class from being [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "UP Statement of Purpose", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/up-statement-of-purpose/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>It really is the economy, stupid!</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/it-really-is-the-economy-stupid-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/it-really-is-the-economy-stupid-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trude</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the unbridled (okay, barely bridled) glee on Wall Street at the Dow’s climb above 13000, the tide that’s raising some boats is swamping others and running a lot of dinghies aground. Let’s follow the money to a few ports of call that UP members care about.
Apparently, we’re not the only ones concerned about the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "It really is the economy, stupid!", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/it-really-is-the-economy-stupid-2/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Transition Rights: the Evolution of Employee Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/transition-rights-the-evolution-of-employee-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/transition-rights-the-evolution-of-employee-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
What if losing your job wasn’t a big deal? What if you’re downsized, RIFed, outsourced, laid off, or just plain fired – and you don’t panic, feel like a total loser, get depressed, or go into debt? What if there was no negative stigma involved in losing your job – in fact, what if the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Transition Rights: the Evolution of Employee Rights", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/transition-rights-the-evolution-of-employee-rights/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Enter the Entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/enter-the-entrepreneur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/enter-the-entrepreneur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trude</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As we find ourselves not-so-valued by Corporate America, with our jobs outsourced to who knows where, the vacuum left by the departure of other-created busy-ness may be filled with a rush of creativity. If your energy rush includes the thought that, hey, maybe companies will want to outsource jobs I can do to me if [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Enter the Entrepreneur", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/25/enter-the-entrepreneur/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>A Supreme Court Victory for Older Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/20/a-supreme-court-victory-for-older-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/20/a-supreme-court-victory-for-older-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Times: 
 &#8221;WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled for older workers Thursday in a closely watched age discrimination case, placing on employers the burden of proving that a layoff or other action that hurts older workers more than others was based not on age but on some other “reasonable factor.” &#8230;
&#8220;[T]his decision, coming [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Supreme Court Victory for Older Workers", url: "http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/20/a-supreme-court-victory-for-older-workers/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>EPI urges immediate action on unemployment benefits extension</title>
		<link>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/10/epi-urges-immediate-action-on-unemployment-benefits-extension/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2008/06/10/epi-urges-immediate-action-on-unemployment-benefits-extension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["This morning, EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey issued the following statement on pending legislation to extend unemployment benefits: 
"For months, as the nation's economy has deteriorated, members of Congress have tried and failed to push through a common-sense extension of unemployment insurance benefits. Now there is another chance. House leaders plan to vote as soon as tomorrow (Wednesday) on a stand-alone extension bill passed Monday by the House Ways and Means Committee. The extension, which adds 13 weeks of benefits to unemployed workers who have exhausted their benefits, might also remain attached to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill for war funding. Congress should use every possible vehicle to put this issue before the president. 
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