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	<title>Workforce Washington</title>
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	<description>An insider's view of how legislation and government regulation influence workforce management.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Employers Seek Best Talent—Foreign or Homegrown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration advocates celebrated a White House meeting on Thursday, June 25, between President Barack Obama and more than two dozen bipartisan members of Congress.
“My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform,” Obama said after emerging from the get-together.
It’s difficult to imagine that an issue as complex as immigration can be completed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurtling Into the Health Care Reform 80-20 Zone</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/06/16/hurtling-into-the-health-care-reform-80-20-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HR Policy &amp; Presidential Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two numbers are becoming important as Congress formally begins the process of hammering out health care legislation this week: 80 and 20.
Many health care advocates say that about 80 percent of medical costs are generated by 20 percent of patients. On Capitol Hill, the ranking Republican of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empathy: Good for Business and Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/06/09/empathy-good-for-business-and-supreme-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Labor Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple weeks we’ve been hearing a lot about “empathy.” That’s one of the characteristics President Barack Obama said he wanted in the next Supreme Court justice.
He believes that his nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, possesses such a quality thanks to her hardscrabble upbringing in the South Bronx. In introducing her to the nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another of Obama’s Fundamental Changes: Training Policy</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/05/29/another-of-obama%e2%80%99s-fundamental-changes-training-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You need a scorecard to keep up with President Barack Obama’s plethora of priorities. On the domestic policy side, he has vowed to make sweeping changes in health care, energy and education.
An important subset of education—workforce training—tends to fly under the radar in Washington, but it will require more presidential and congressional leadership than it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workplace Flexibility Tries to Achieve ADA-Like Consensus</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/05/15/workplace-flexibility-tries-to-achieve-ada-like-consensus/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2009/05/15/workplace-flexibility-tries-to-achieve-ada-like-consensus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schoeff Jr.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What has passed for bipartisanship in Washington so far this year is really just the flexing of political muscle.
Throughout his campaign and his nascent administration, President Barack Obama touted his ability to forge consensus from warring political parties. So far, there’s no evidence of it. There doesn’t have to be, with Democrats holding significant majorities [...]]]></description>
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