<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>California May Pay Parents to Watch Their Own Kids : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>124491</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/124491/1/</url><title><![CDATA[California May Pay Parents to Watch Their Own Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[County officials say the move to expand child-care payments to thousands of welfare-recipient parents -- allowing them to stay home and tend to their children under 6 years old full-time.<br/>*WTF?*]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>173</score><crdate>6/19/2009 9:37:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-19T21:37:14+01:00</atomdate></link><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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