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		<title>Kathie Lingle&#8217;s Work-Life Blog and Best of Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Kathie Lingle&#8217;s Work-Life Blog. She has an excellent post on the Corporate Voices&#8217; Best of Congress award. But as Kathie points out, it is not only about the award and the recognition of members of Congress from both political parties. It&#8217;s about calling attention to work-life issues.
Here is her take on the &#8220;long-awaited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the &#8220;Best of Congress&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate Voices for Working Families and Working Mother Media
Honor Congressional Members Making a Difference for Working Families
Honoring leaders on Capitol Hill for improving the American quality of life through family-friendly work policies, Corporate Voices for Working Families and Working Mother Media announced today the 24 recipients of the inaugural Best of Congress award. The award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EITC News Conference Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Emanuel, IRS Commissioner, Northwestern President, Business Leaders Outline Plan to Put More Money in the Pockets of Working Families
Here are some highlights from this morning&#8217;s news conference in Chicago that spotlighted efforts to inform low-wage employees about the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, Northwestern University President Henry S. Bienen and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EITC news conference this morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate Voices for Working Families Board member Steve Wing is going to join Representative Rahm Emanuel and others at a news conference in Chicago this morning designed to call attention to efforts to expand education to low-wage employees about the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Corporate Voices for Working Families strongly supports this initiative and for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A vision of schools as community centers</title>
		<link>http://corporatevoices.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-vision-of-schools-as-community-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Randi Weingarten, new president of the American Federation of Teachers, has optimistic plans for the success of public schools.  Weingarten’s vision is to create a comprehensive design that would integrate education into a center that serves the community- a place where underprivileged students are offered more than just classroom learning time.  Sam Dillon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High School Dropouts &#8212; The California Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times published an article last week titled “1 in 4 California high school students drop out, state says.&#8221; The story indicates that the extent of the dropout crisis in California is worse than expected &#8212; and spotlights an issue that should concern everyone in this nation.
And to try to obtain even more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Voices Spotlights Workforce Readiness Challenges, Solutions</title>
		<link>http://corporatevoices.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/corporate-voices-spotlights-workforce-readiness-challenges-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate Voices has issued a comprehensive position paper and statement of principles that spotlights workforce readiness challenges and solutions.
Titled Tomorrow’s Workforce: Ready or Not: It’s A Choice the Business Community Must Make Now – the report identifies the challenges facing the business community and highlights actions that can be taken now to help solve a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirement: Find work &#8212; and luck</title>
		<link>http://corporatevoices.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/retirement-find-work-and-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the baby boomers’ retirement looming in the near future, many fear about the strain it will place on the United States economy. In a New York Times article “For Good Retirement, Find Work. Good Luck,” Steve Lohr gives an overview of the negative effects of early retirement on the economy and offers some helpful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sloan Network News Interviews Maggie Jackson</title>
		<link>http://corporatevoices.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/sloan-network-news-interviews-maggie-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read the June Network News, an electronic newsletter edited by Karen Corday and the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College. The newsletter provides an informative and thought-provoking interview with Maggie Jackson about her new book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention.
Here&#8217;s information about Maggie Jackson from the interview:
Maggie Jackson is an award-winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Voices supports EITC legislation</title>
		<link>http://corporatevoices.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/corporate-voices-supports-eitc-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Jewell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate Voices for Working Families attended a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday June 25, which announced the introduction of the Earned Income Credit Information Act of 2008. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) spoke at the Press Conference, as did Wal-Mart and SEIU.
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest [...]]]></description>
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