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			<title><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown unveils cautious budget for deficit-free state]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 20:38:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO &mdash; California may finally be free of deficits, but Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled a cautious budget Tuesday, saying the state's financial condition remains treacherously unstable. 

Brown put lawmakers on notice that he had no desire to ratchet...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown sticks to hard line in revised budget proposal]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 12:19:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown took a hard line Tuesday as he unveiled his latest budget plan, seeking to tighten general-fund spending and holding firm on his push to redistribute money for schools. 

He proposed general-fund expenditures of $96.4...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Assembly speaker outlines budget plans]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-08 15:33:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Gov. Jerry Brown won't unveil his revised budget plan until next week, but Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez detailed some of his own ideas Wednesday. 

Pérez (D-Los Angeles) wants to increase state-subsidized employment for welfare recipients to put more...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pérez vows fiscal discipline from Democrats]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO &mdash; Speaker John Pérez wants voters to know something: Cash may be cascading into state coffers as it hasn't for years. Democrats may totally control the Assembly with a new supermajority. But they're not going to be drunken sailors....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nicolas Maduro wins Venezuela presidency, council says]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-14 23:06:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[CARACAS, Venezuela &mdash; Nicolas Maduro, who served as Venezuela's interim president in the weeks after the death of his mentor, President Hugo Chavez, won a narrow victory over Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles to become the country's elected...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[In working-class neighborhoods, activist seeks to give away guns]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-13 20:18:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In a city still reeling from a shooting rampage that killed six and severely injured a congresswoman, contrasting giveaways are being proposed for a handful of its working-class neighborhoods. 

One would dole out free shotguns to poor adults. Another...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOP primary voters not opposed to immigration reform]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-28 09:33:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Conservative Republicans are open to an overhaul of the nation&rsquo;s immigration system, including creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to a new report on voter attitudes in two states with early...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Does Congress have the heart to avert disability crisis?]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-fi-hiltzik-20130402,0,1760008.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-02 15:10:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bonnie Lee worked for 12 years as a health technician for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, started her own Web services company, and raised two kids as a single mother in Ontario. 

Then Bonnie, 51, moved back East to rural Pennsylvania and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why 'chained CPI' works for Social Security [Blowback]]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-02 11:12:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In his March 22 blog post criticizing proposals to switch from the consumer price index to "chained CPI" to determine cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security beneficiaries and other items in the federal budget, Michael Hiltzik claimed that there...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Goldberg: Is disability the new welfare?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The government in Britain recently did something interesting. 

It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" &mdash; a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms &mdash; to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Interview: Why the world is losing faith in democracy]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-fg-wn-book-democracy-in-retreat-20130326,0,2054677.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-30 02:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the heady days of 1989, nondemocratic regimes fell like dominoes to the peaceful march of activists across Eastern Europe. Even China briefly appeared vulnerable to popular demands for a voice in how the country is ruled -- until the crackdown at ...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOP approves Paul Ryan's austere, balanced budget]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-21 08:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &ndash; The austere House budget drafted by Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that has come to define the Republican Party was approved Thursday on a strict party-line vote, as the GOP argues that a balanced budget should now be Washington&rsquo;s top...]]></description>
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