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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Back to Work Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a work opportunity tax credit for hiring long-term unemployed individuals. Defines &quot;long-term unemployed individual&quot; as an individual certified as receiving federal or state unemployment compensation for not less than 26 consecutive weeks during the one-year period ending on the hiring date.</p>]]></text>
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