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		<title>Say No to Workfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The TUC’s new Charter on work experience and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/say-no-to-workfare/</link>
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		<title>Something for nothing or nothing for something?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post from Matt Oakley of Policy Exchange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/something-for-nothing-or-nothing-for-something/</link>
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		<title>Counting the cost of &#8216;free&#8217; banking: in response to Andrew Bailey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Bailey, who will soon become chief regulator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/counting-the-cost-of-free-banking-in-response-to-andrew-bailey/</link>
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		<title>Labour Market Report #26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just published this month&#8217;s TUC Labour Market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/labour-market-report-26/</link>
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		<title>German model isn&#8217;t heaven, Faisal, but it beats British inequality!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faisal Islam, Economics Editor of Channel 4 News, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/german-model-isnt-heaven-faisal-but-it-beats-british-inequality/</link>
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		<title>The KfW? &#8220;We should copy it&#8221; &#8211; banker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, Germany’s KfW invests 25 times the initial annual capitalisation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/the-kfw-we-should-copy-it-banker/</link>
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		<title>Two years on &#8211; time for the Government to think again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we learned that GDP actually fell by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/two-years-on-time-for-the-government-to-think-again/</link>
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		<title>Web links for 23rd May 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stumbling and Mumbling: Beecroft&#8217;s lesson Chris is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/web-links-for-23rd-may-2012/</link>
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		<title>The government’s unimpressive job creation record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Prime Minister’s Questions today (watch here from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/the-government%e2%80%99s-unimpressive-job-creation-record/</link>
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		<title>BoE Agents&#8217; Report suggests unemployment due to rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s summary of the reports from the Bank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/boe-agents-report-suggests-unemployment-due-to-rise/</link>
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		<title>Euro-Parliament&#8217;s clear message to EU leaders: for growth&#8217;s sake, let&#8217;s have a Robin Hood Tax!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament voted today &#8211; by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/euro-parliaments-clear-message-to-eu-leaders-for-growths-sake-lets-have-a-robin-hood-tax/</link>
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		<title>Pat McFadden is right: we need to be making things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Pat McFadden, MP for Wolverhampton South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/pat-mcfadden-is-right-we-need-to-be-making-things/</link>
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		<title>Pressure mounts on single parents to move off unemployment benefits, but where are the family-friendly jobs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, austerity has tightened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/pressure-mounts-on-single-parents-to-move-off-unemployment-benefits-but-where-are-the-family-friendly-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Monetary and fiscal stimulus are not the same thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m still working my way through the IMF’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/monetary-and-fiscal-stimulus-are-not-the-same-thing/</link>
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		<title>Energy Bill needs a plan for growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alongside the Energy Bill, a TUC Briefing, published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/energy-bill-needs-a-plan-for-growth/</link>
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		<title>Cost of Living: Time to write a letter to the poorest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s inflation figures brought another welcome fall in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/cost-of-living-time-to-write-a-letter-to-the-poorest/</link>
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		<title>Economic inequality and social justice – lessons from Northern Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judy McKnight, former General Secretary of NAPO and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/economic-inequality-and-social-justice-%e2%80%93-lessons-from-northern-europe/</link>
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		<title>G8: Facing both ways means facing the wrong way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The G8 summit in Camp David is over, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/g8-facing-both-ways-means-facing-the-wrong-way/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s just business. Is that the extent of our foreign policy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke to the CBI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/its-just-business-is-that-the-extent-of-our-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<title>Tackling the global jobs crisis: unions call for G20 action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employment Ministers from around the G20 have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/05/tackling-the-global-jobs-crisis-unions-call-for-g20-action/</link>
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