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    <title>Across the States - Episodes Tagged with “Commerce”</title>
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    <description>People spend far too much time looking just at the federal government. The same is true with podcasts. Instead, the discussions hosted on Across the States focus on state issues and state solutions within state capitols, by state legislators and with state policy experts.
The American Legislative Exchange Council is the country's largest voluntary membership organization of state legislators in the United States. It acts as a forum to exchange ideas and develop state-based solutions.
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    <itunes:summary>People spend far too much time looking just at the federal government. The same is true with podcasts. Instead, the discussions hosted on Across the States focus on state issues and state solutions within state capitols, by state legislators and with state policy experts.
The American Legislative Exchange Council is the country's largest voluntary membership organization of state legislators in the United States. It acts as a forum to exchange ideas and develop state-based solutions.
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  <title>Championing Worker Freedom Across The States: Alan Jernigan and Vincent Vernuccio</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>As debates over worker rights ripple across the country, one message continues to echo from state to state: workers deserve the freedom to choose the work arrangements that fit their lives best. But how should lawmakers turn that principle into policy?

To help answer that, ALEC Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force Manager Alan Jernigan and Institute for the American Worker President Vincent Vernuccio sat down on a recent ALEC TV Breakdown to spotlight the third edition of States That Work: A Labor Policy Roadmap Across America. The publication, they explained, is more than a report—it’s a call to action.</itunes:subtitle>
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To help answer that, ALEC Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force Manager Alan Jernigan and Institute for the American Worker President Vincent Vernuccio sat down on a recent ALEC TV Breakdown to spotlight the third edition of States That Work: A Labor Policy Roadmap Across America. The publication, they explained, is more than a report—it’s a call to action. Special Guest: F. Vincent Vernuccio.
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<p>To help answer that, ALEC Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force Manager Alan Jernigan and Institute for the American Worker President Vincent Vernuccio sat down on a recent ALEC TV Breakdown to spotlight the third edition of States That Work: A Labor Policy Roadmap Across America. The publication, they explained, is more than a report—it’s a call to action.</p><p>Special Guest: F. Vincent Vernuccio.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://secure.anedot.com/alec/givetoacrossthestates">Support Across the States</a></p>]]>
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<p>To help answer that, ALEC Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force Manager Alan Jernigan and Institute for the American Worker President Vincent Vernuccio sat down on a recent ALEC TV Breakdown to spotlight the third edition of States That Work: A Labor Policy Roadmap Across America. The publication, they explained, is more than a report—it’s a call to action.</p><p>Special Guest: F. Vincent Vernuccio.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://secure.anedot.com/alec/givetoacrossthestates">Support Across the States</a></p>]]>
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  <title>States That Work: A Roadmap to Labor Policy Reform</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In a recent Breakdown from the American Legislative Exchange Council, Lars Dalseide sat down with ALEC Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development (CIED) Task Force manager Alan Jernigan to discuss States That Work: A Labor Policy Roadmap Across America. The report, spearheaded by Jernigan, evaluates each state’s labor policies based on ten model reforms developed by the CIED Task Force.</itunes:subtitle>
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