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		<title>Don&#8217;t like plus-one health benefits? Try minus-one!</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/03/04/dont-like-plus-one-health-benefits-try-minus-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a jaw-dropping demonstration of what happens when institutions value their exclusive notion of marriage over everything else including health care, Catholic Charities of Washington, DC has announced that
Effective tomorrow, its employees will no longer be able to add a spouse to employee health benefit coverage. Spouses who are currently covered will continue to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital rights victory in New York</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/26/victory-for-hospital-rights-in-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/26/victory-for-hospital-rights-in-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For over 17 years, New York has struggled to attain medical decision making rights for its patients. Not anymore! Just two days ago, New York voted YES on the Family Health Care Decisions Act! It&#8217;s been a long time coming!
The FHCDA helps protect people who don&#8217;t document their wishes. It gives family members and friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why TANF must give economic aid &amp; help all relationships</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/19/why-tanf-must-give-economic-aid-help-all-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/19/why-tanf-must-give-economic-aid-help-all-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[marriage promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unmarried.org/blog/?p=564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two heartrending news articles crossed my desk this morning.   Both highlight the reasons that TANF (the main federal anti-poverty program) should focus on economic assistance.  They also point to the importance of healthy relationships for all people, regardless of marital status.  If any federal money is going to pay for relationship education, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Update editor: puzzled by points on first lady</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/18/letter-to-the-update-editor-puzzled-by-points-on-first-lady/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/18/letter-to-the-update-editor-puzzled-by-points-on-first-lady/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters to AtMP newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am puzzled by some parts of Jaclyn Geller&#8217;s article about Michelle Obama.
The first paragraph refers to Michelle Obama&#8217;s &#8220;natal children.&#8221;  Is it supposed to be a problem that she gave birth to them herself??
Geller says that in a magazine interview, &#8220;Obama urged women to look at the &#8220;hearts&#8221; and &#8220;souls&#8221; of potential husbands and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AtMP’s e-newsletter is now online</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/18/atmp%e2%80%99s-e-newsletter-is-now-online/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/18/atmp%e2%80%99s-e-newsletter-is-now-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters to AtMP newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AtMP members world-wide received Update, our email newsletter, last week.  We hit some technical obstacles to publishing all the articles in one place, but you can see them individually at the following links:
A First Lady We Can Really Admire? by Jaclyn Geller
The Marriage Index by Arcenia Harmon
Meet a Board Member: Michele Hirsch
If you’d like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marital status, race and ethnicity</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/16/marital-status-race-and-ethnicity/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/16/marital-status-race-and-ethnicity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[singlism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Really glad to see the impact of marital status discrimination addressed in Race Talk.  With 70% of African-American adults unmarried (compared to 45% of Whites and 49% of Latinos in the US), every law or economic policy that uses marital status has a disparate impact on the Black community.  AtMP agrees wholeheartedly that
it’s time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different-sex domestic partners pay more at Syracuse U.</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/12/different-sex-domestic-partners-pay-more-at-syracuse-u/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/02/12/different-sex-domestic-partners-pay-more-at-syracuse-u/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we noted Virginia&#8217;s offer to let state employees share benefits with household members regardless of relationship, but charge them full price while deeply subsidizing benefits for spouses.  Syracuse University now joins that unwelcome trend.
For several years, AtMP members and fellow Syracuse graduate students tried to persuade the University to provide inclusive domestic partner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring &#8220;marriage penalties&#8221; in health reform</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/27/exploring-marriage-penalties-in-health-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/27/exploring-marriage-penalties-in-health-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unmarried.org/blog/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Though it didn&#8217;t get much major media attention, several small and so-called conservative outlets have been complaining that the health reform bills moving (or not) through Congress are unfair to married people.  AtMP tracks news about &#8220;marriage penalties&#8221; for two reasons: first, we oppose and look for ways to solve all forms of marital status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations with a chief marriage promoter</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/19/conversations-with-a-chief-marriage-promoter/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/19/conversations-with-a-chief-marriage-promoter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[marriage promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unmarried.org/blog/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago as I was heading into the office, my Blackberry picked up an email posting to AtMP-Talk, our interactive listserve.  AtMP-TALK has been hosting important, enlightening and sometimes silly conversations among over 500 members for over a decade, but it had been pretty quiet in recent months.  This posting caught my eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilt by association?</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/14/guilt-by-association/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2010/01/14/guilt-by-association/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beyond same-sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does the Alternatives to Marriage Project have to do with Prop 8?  Very little!  But we were mentioned during cross-examination anyway, so let&#8217;s clear up some misunderstandings and provide some context here.
One live-blogger described it like this:
Thompson begins making the case that because Cott supported an organization called Alternatives to Marriage, started by a [...]]]></description>
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