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<div><ol><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">The unemployment rate dropped because more people dropped out of the labor forceþ </font></h2></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">Because of us, California is healthierþ(SEIU) </font></h2></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">Revealed: Full List of ALEC's Corporate Members</span> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; ">May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement</span> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18758?akid=8724.16102.WdLTCv&t=10" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Miami Workers Center Cleans Foreclosed Home And Delivers Trash To Owner, Bank Of America (PHOTOS)</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18760?akid=8724.16102.WdLTCv&t=12" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">NYPD May Be Using Warrant Squads to Monitor Protesters</a> </b></font></li><li><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font size="3">VIDEO ALERT: NNU Executive Director & May 18 Chicago Promo </font></h2></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5712787763067e7c17&ls=fe161d777d63077b721678&m=fefc1172766306&l=fed1157376640678&s=fe3215727764017c7d1d71&jb=ffcf14&t=" target="_blank" style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(2, 74, 130); cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">CalSTRS to oppose Wal-Mart directors over Mexico bribery scandal</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18738?akid=8723.16102.lNeIPj&t=2" target="_blank" style="line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide</a> </b></font></li><li><font size="3"><b><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/18741?akid=8723.16102.lNeIPj&t=12" target="_blank" style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">The Real Job Creators: Everyday Americans, Not the 1%</a> </b></font> </li></ol><div><br></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><h2 class="ReadMsgSubject" style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The unemployment rate dropped because more people dropped out of the labor forceþ</h2></div><div><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Friday’s jobs report for April was even more disappointing than March. Employers added only 115,000 new jobs, down from March’s number (the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the March number upward to 154,000, but that’s still abysmal relative to what’s needed). We need well over 250,000 new jobs per month in order to begin to whittle down the vast number of jobs lost in the Great Recession. At least 125,000 new jobs are necessary each month just to keep up with an expanding population of working-age people.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">With only 115,000 jobs in April, the hole is getting even deeper. Most observers pay attention to the official rate of unemployment, which edged down to 8.1 percent in April from 8.2 percent in March. That may sound like progress, but it’s not. The unemployment rate dropped because more people dropped out of the labor force, too discouraged to look for work. The household survey, from which the rate is calculated, counts as “unemployed” only people who are actively looking for work. If you stop looking because the job scene looks hopeless for you, you’re no longer counted. In the winter months — December, January, and February – hiring had seemed to pick up, averaging over 250,000 new jobs per month. Then the mini-surge stopped. The simplest explanation is that the mild winter across much of the United States gave an unusual boost to hiring then, leading to a correction by the spring.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Most of the job gains in April were in lower-wage industries – retail stores, restaurants, and temporary-help. That means average wages continue to drop, adjusted for inflation – continuing their long-term decline. Most of the new jobs that have been added to the U.S. economy during this recovery have paid less than the jobs that were lost during the downturn.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">What does all this mean? 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imagecache-article_main_image" title="article image" alt="Article image" src="http://www.nationofchange.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_main_image/economy5512.jpg" width="480" height="288"></div><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It’s also bad news for Obama and the Democrats. Voters don’t pay much attention to the economy in an election year until after Labor Day, so it’s not necessarily a huge help to Romney and the Republicans. But it’s a bad political omen nonetheless. </p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">No set of policies between now and Election Day are likely to expand the economy. To the contrary, government at all levels continues to contract, acting as a fiscal drag when government needs to be doing the exact reverse – boosting the economy through additional spending. In 2013, when spending major cuts are scheduled, we’ll fall off a fiscal cliff.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Obama needs to push back loudly and clearly, saying he won’t support additional spending cuts until the economy is showing clear signs of improvement.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But widening inequality is the underlying culprit here. As long as almost all the gains from economic growth continue to go to the top, the vast middle class doesn’t have the purchasing power to boost the economy on its own. And rich Americans spend a much smaller portion of their incomes than does the vast middle class. Their marginal satisfaction from additional spending falls off. The second yacht isn’t nearly as much fun as the first.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Get it? We’ve still got a terrible cyclical problem – we can’t get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Yet the underlying problem is structural, and it’s been growing for decades. The structural problem of stagnant or declining real incomes for most people, and soaring income and wealth at the top, was masked during the boom years when the middle class could turn their homes into piggy banks and extract home-equity loans or refinance. But the mask came off in 2008 as home values plummeted.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There’s no way to put the mask back on. We’ve got to face the truth. Obama and the Democrats have to explain to the American people why inequality isn’t just unfair; it’s also economically unsustainable.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em>This article was originally posted on Robert Reich's <a href="http://robertreich.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><font color="#d13f29" style="line-height: normal; ">blog</font></a>.</em></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em><br></em></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912430/eric_bolling_uses_ridiculous_smear_tactic_to_discredit_employment_increase/#paragraph3">http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912430/eric_bolling_uses_ridiculous_smear_tactic_to_discredit_employment_increase/#paragraph3</a>
</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em><br></em></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="headline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left; "><h1 style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; clear: left; "><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912430/eric_bolling_uses_ridiculous_smear_tactic_to_discredit_employment_increase/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Eric Bolling Uses Ridiculous Smear Tactic to Discredit Employment Increase</a></h1></div><div class="newsandviews_page_content" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Georgia, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left; "><p name="paragraph1" id="paragraph1"> That's right. According to <s>moran</s> "renowned journalist" at Fox News, Eric Bolling, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is deliberately distorting the truth about the real employment figures. He claims they are becoming a "partisan" agency that manufactures the recent increase in new hires <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205030003" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">"out of thin air."</a></p><p name="paragraph2" id="paragraph2"></p><blockquote>During the May 3 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News business analyst and co-host of Fox News' The Five, Eric Bolling, continued his attack on "the big employment number" calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), an agency that Bolling has repeatedly suggested is "becoming a partisan department" as the unemployment rate has dropped under President Obama. In today's version of his weekly attack, Bolling asked "where do they come up with the number" for the labor force participation and conclude the number comes "out of thin air" to make the estimate look "better than what the actual job number really is."</blockquote> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912430/eric_bolling_uses_ridiculous_smear_tactic_to_discredit_employment_increase/#paragraph3" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Read more <img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/newsletter/more_newsandviews.gif" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; position: relative; top: 3px; "></a><BR></div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: oblique; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; ">By <a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/4/102450/0656" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Steven D.</a> | <a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/4/102450/0656" style="color: rgb(222, 73, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Booman Tribune</a> <br>Posted on Friday, May 4, 2012 @ 08:22 AM</h3></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em><br></em></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><table width="626" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; "> </td></tr><tr><td style="border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-width: 10px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><center><img border="0" align="center" src="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/-/email-images/seiu-uhw-email-header-p.jpg" title="SEIU-UHW United Healthcare Workers West" alt="SEIU-UHW United Healthcare Workers West"></center></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="626" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="left" valign="top" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Dear UHW Supporter,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Last year, SEIU-UHW launched “Let’s Get Healthy, California,” a big and bold campaign whose aim is to improve the quality of healthcare in California, lower costs, create good healthcare jobs and dramatically reduce the number of people who suffer from chronic health conditions. </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">We knew when we set out that what we were attempting to achieve was going to be tough, but that if we were successful, we would have fundamentally changed the healthcare system in California--for workers, for patients, and for communities-- for the better. </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">This week, we took two giant steps forward on the road to a healthier California by creating valuable partnerships that will help make our vision a reality:</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1dce5/1744dce/5ccb14ff/39781ce/2542967573/VEsH/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img align="right" alt="" height="221" src="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/-/DIana Dooley for Carousel.jpg" width="301" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; "></a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">1) Diana Dooley, the head of California's Health and Human Services Agency, announced today that the Governor has issued an Executive Order that makes our "Let's Get Healthy, California" campaign the policy of the state, and they are now working with us to make our goals a reality. <a href="http://uhw.seiu.org/page/m/18a1dce5/1744dce/5ccb14ff/39781ce/2542967573/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Check out this video of her announcement </span></a>(or click on the picture). </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">2) We have made a landmark agreement with the hospital industry that will allow us to work together on our joint priorities:</p><ul style="line-height: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 1em; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 1em; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Reducing the levels of chronic disease;</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Advocating for quality care and lower costs;</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Changing how the healthcare system is funded; and</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; ">Developing high-road labor relations that will pave the way for thousands of healthcare workers to join a union. </li></ul><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">This is an exciting time for our union. Working together with hospitals and with the State of California, we know we will be able to create the California that we have envisioned: a healthier one where everyone can access the care they need. </p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; "><img align="left" alt="" height="147" src="http://www.seiu-uhw.org/files/2012/05/Allen-IV-Ollie-J_0083.jpg" width="105" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; "></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">In Unity,</p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; ">Ollie Allen<br>Kaiser Vallejo</p> <br style="line-height: 15px; "> <br style="line-height: 15px; "> <br style="line-height: 15px; "></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br style="line-height: 13px; "> <br style="line-height: 13px; "><div style="line-height: 13px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-image: initial; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; text-align: center; ">SEIU United Healthcare Workers - West</div> <br style="line-height: 13px; "><div style="line-height: 13px; text-align: center; ">560 Thomas L. 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Now, the watchdog advocacy group Common Cause has released a complete list of corporations on ALEC's task forces." </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BxWROZ1kv3elIrklTAbRMdC5CMZwYk0n" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#cc0000" style="line-height: normal; ">Read the Article</font></a><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span>
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</div><div><br></div><div><font style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="line-height: 17px; ">May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement</strong></font><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: "Popular anger has grown over Wall Street impunity, huge tax breaks for the rich, unlimited spending in election campaigns, corporate destruction of the environment, and the widening gap between the falling wages of workers and the rising income of corporate executives. Therefore, it seems likely that the struggle for economic justice will heighten in coming years, with May Day continuing to serve as a potent symbol of worker discontent." </span><br style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#cc0000" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: normal; "><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y6E63s%2BWZj9H%2B0jSyAH6e9bBsEsTpqPM" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Read the Article</a></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912899/stunning_photography_captures_essence_of_may_day_in_nyc/" style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912899/stunning_photography_captures_essence_of_may_day_in_nyc/</a><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span>
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font-size: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><p align="center" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fc2/ac40fff/712e13a9/1685fdc5/3443622833/VEsE/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; "><img alt="may 18 promo" height="235" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/6997711704_fbe7736683.jpg" width="500" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; "></a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; "><strong>Please watch and share these two great videos with your Facebook friends and other social networks </strong>about why a Financial Transaction Tax--becoming known worldwide as a "Robin Hood Tax"--should become part of the economic recovery in the U.S., and what the National Nurses United is doing to fight for it. <a href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b0fc2/ac40fff/712e13a9/1685fdc5/3443622833/VEsF/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); 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