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	<title>Tom Crawford&#039;s Georgia Report &#187; jobless benefits</title>
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		<title>Deal signs sentencing revision, cuts in jobless benefits</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/05/02/deals-signs-sentencing-revision-cuts-in-jobless-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[criminal sentencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment trust fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia revamps its criminal sentencing laws in a bill signed by Gov. Deal, who also signed off on legislation cutting the unemployment benefits paid by Georgia . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers cut jobless benefits; anti-union bill fails</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/03/30/lawmakers-cut-jobless-benefits-anti-union-bill-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[picketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Legislature approves reductions in jobless benefits, but does not vote on an anti-union bill that would have banned picketing . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Jobless benefits bill heads to conference committee</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/03/28/jobless-benefits-bill-heads-to-conference-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[employer premiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance trust fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of unemployment benefits will be hashed out by a House-Senate conference committee . . .]]></description>
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		<title>House will be able to cut jobless benefits without debating the bill</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/03/27/house-will-able-to-cut-jobless-benefits-without-debating-the-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[House agree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliamentary maneuver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance trust fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Legislative leadership uses a last-minute switch to finesse the passage of a bill that would reduce jobless benefits for laid-off workers . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Jobless benefits bill still hanging in the balance</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/03/16/jobless-benefits-bill-still-hanging-in-the-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Ralston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fran Millar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Henson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Legislators still haven't solved the problem of how to restore the fiscal stability of the unemployment insurance trust fund and pay back $730 million to the federal government . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Safety net, worker rights being shredded, Dems say</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/03/08/safety-net-worker-rights-being-shredded-dems-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fran Millar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nan Orrock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance trust fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgil Fludd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic lawmakers say legislation moving through the General Assembly will give Georgia the weakest unemployment insurance system in the country . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Senate passes bill cutting jobless payments</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/02/24/senate-passes-bill-cutting-jobless-payments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senate passes bill to reduce payments of unemployment benefits and sends the measure to the House . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Senate committee approves reduction in jobless benefits</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2012/02/21/senate-approves-reduction-in-jobless-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charlie Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Appley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fran Millar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nan Orrock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment trust fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Legislation moving in the Senate would cut back payments of unemployment benefits to laid-off workers . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature will consider trimming jobless benefits</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2011/10/20/legislature-will-consider-trimming-jobless-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[employer tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment insurance trust fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Labor Department develops some options for lawmakers to consider as they try to decide how the state will pay back $721 million in federal funds it borrowed to pay unemployment benefits to laidoff workers . . . ]]></description>
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		<title>Political Notes:  Deal picks up legislative endorsements</title>
		<link>http://gareport.com/story/2010/07/29/political-notes-deal-picks-up-legislative-endorsements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona immigration law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Hamrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddy Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crush videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Isakson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karen handel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Hawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike thurmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preston Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Olens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Bearden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Graves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three lawmakers announce their support for Nathan Deal over Karen Handel in the GOP runoff; Handel answers with a negative TV spot that denounces Deal as "corrupt" . . .]]></description>
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