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            <title><![CDATA[Black Friday Sales Signal Tough Holidays for US Retailers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A group of chains that rely on Black Friday more than peers posted a 4% drop in sales.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is the US Headed for a Recession? Look at What Richer Americans Do on Black Friday]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The upper middle class powered a spending boom that kept the US out of recession, but there are increasing signs of a slowdown. ]]></description>
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                <media:description>Nordstrom and other retailers that cater to America’s upper middle class have experienced weakening results.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unions Are Winning Big for the First Time in Decades]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For the first time this century, unions aren’t on the defensive. In fact, they’re winning big. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Striking UAW Workers Are Losing the Race Against Inflation]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Past wage increases have failed to keep up with surging cost-of-living expenses]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Bejder Jensen]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>United Auto Workers (UAW) members and supporters on a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Chicago Assembly Plant in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. The United Auto Workers expanded its strike against General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. to more assembly plants, but the union spared Jeep maker Stellantis NV from additional walkouts after a last minute breakthrough.</media:description>
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