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	<title>Working Families &#187; Budget</title>
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	<description>Vote your Values: New York’s liveliest and most progressive political party. Formed by a grassroots coalition of community organizations, neighborhood activists, and labor unions, we came together build a society that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected.</description>
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		<title>WFP Praises Fair Share Tax Reform Act</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/02/wfp-praises-fair-share-reform-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: February 10, 2009
Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party today released the following statement on the Fair Share Tax Reform Act introduced today in the Senate. It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, WFP Executive Director:
&#8220;While Governor Paterson continues to ask everyone except the wealthy to contribute to closing the state&#8217;s budget gap, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Statement on Bloomberg&#8217;s Budget Address</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/wfp-statement-on-bloombergs-budget-address/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/wfp-statement-on-bloombergs-budget-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: January 30, 2009
Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party released today the following statement on Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s budget address. It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director:
&#8220;The catastrophic budget picture presented by Mayor Bloomberg today shows again the desperate need to ask the wealthiest New Yorkers to contribute their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact Check: EJ McMahon&#8217;s Prescription: Economic Death</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/fact-check-ej-mcmahons-prescription-economic-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/fact-check-ej-mcmahons-prescription-economic-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Share]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

EJ McMahon just  can&#8217;t help himself. The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s &#8220;Director of the Empire Center for  New York Policy&#8221; proves in a series of op-eds that he&#8217;s more far-right ideologue  than economist and more worried about pushing his agenda than the facts. Last  week it was the Daily  News, today it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times: Millionaire&#8217;s Tax Likely</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/times-millionaires-tax-likely/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/times-millionaires-tax-likely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Share]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times today points to the increasingly likelihood that New York will raise taxes on the wealthy to help balance the budget.  That&#8217;s good news for anyone who thinks school children, the elderly, and the disabled shouldn&#8217;t have to bear the burden of the state&#8217;s multi-billion dollar budget deficit alone:

Warning to rich New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHARE Party: Dancing for a fair budget</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/share-party-dancing-for-a-fair-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/share-party-dancing-for-a-fair-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Share]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over three hundred community activists and organizers gathered at the &#8220;SHARE&#8221; party on Thursday night at Brooklyn&#8217;s Soda bar to launch a grassroots campaign to fight Governor Paterson&#8217;s devastating proposed budget cuts.
The activists, many of whom joined political organizing for the first time during the Obama campaign, hope to build support for a millionaire&#8217;s tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Middle-Class Pay?</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/let-the-middle-class-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2009/01/let-the-middle-class-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take Action &#62;&#62;
In his State of the State address yesterday, Gov. Paterson called for &#8220;shared sacrifice&#8221; to get New York through one of the worst recessions we&#8217;ve seen in decades.
But the budget proposal the Governor presented last month would mean anything but.
Billions of dollars in cuts to healthcare, education, and hundreds of essential public services.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Responds to Gov. Paterson&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/12/wfp-responds-to-gov-patersons-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/12/wfp-responds-to-gov-patersons-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WFP Director Dan Cantor was a guest on WNYC&#8217;s Brian Lehrer Show today discussing Gov. David Paterson&#8217;s unfair budget proposal. On Tuesday, the Governor offered a budget that raises billions in taxes on the middle class, makes devastating cuts to services we need, and all without asking the wealthy to share the burden.
Listen to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLL: New York Demands Fair Share Approach to Budget Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/12/poll-new-york-demands-fair-share-approach-to-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/12/poll-new-york-demands-fair-share-approach-to-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Share]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contact:  Dan Levitan
According to a poll conducted by Kiley &#38; Company, and commissioned by the Working Families Party, the vast majority of New Yorkers are in strong opposition to the planned cuts by Gov. David Paterson and are in strong support of a solution to the State&#8217;s budget crisis that uses a combination of both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-Ed: To help stop budget bleeding, raise taxes on the rich</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/11/op-ed-to-help-stop-budget-bleeding-raise-taxes-on-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/11/op-ed-to-help-stop-budget-bleeding-raise-taxes-on-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working  Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor argues the merits of raising taxes  on millionaires to help close New York&#8217;s budget gap in an op-ed today in the  Daily News:

To help stop budget bleeding, raise taxes on the  rich
By Dan Cantor 
Wednesday, November 19th 2008, 4:00 AM
After a week of posturing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Statement on Tomorrow&#8217;s Special Session</title>
		<link>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/11/statement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2008/11/statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Levitan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party today released the following statement on tomorrow&#8217;s special legislative session.  It can be attributed to Bob Master, Working Families Party Co-Chair:
&#8220;Tomorrow, Governor Paterson is asking New York&#8217;s working families to swallow billions in budget cuts. The cuts will negatively impact millions of New Yorkers: SUNY and CUNY students, [...]]]></description>
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