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Romney Makes Bold Prediction On Unemployment Rate

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2012

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Mitt Romney, in a sit-down interview with Time's Mark Halperin, said that by the end of his first term as president he would get the unemployment rate...

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Romney On Unemployment: 'Not Cause For Celebration'

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 05.04.2012

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Early on Friday, Mitt Romney declared that a signal of a strong economy would be one creating roughly 500,000 jobs a month. The number was arbitrary; ...

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Romney Says Obama Should Have Historically Rare Metric For Job Growth

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Friday's news of yet another month of tepid job growth in April provided Mitt Romney with an opening both to criticize the president's p...

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Unemployment Rate Falls To 8.1 Percent As People Give Up On Looking For Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.05.2012

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While the U.S. unemployment rate in April was the lowest it's been in more than three years, the unemployed may simply be falling off the government's...

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Many Americans Aren't Earning Enough To Keep Out Of Poverty

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.11.2012

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In this post-recession economy you may be able to get a job, but that doesn't necessarily protect you from falling into poverty. In 2010, the numb...

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Analyst: Michigan 'Not Out Of The Woods Yet' On Unemployment

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.29.2012

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Michigan' unemployment rate continues to decline, dropping below 9 percent in February for the first time since 2008. But the situation is more grim i...

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How Snooki Became a Job Creator

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.28.2012

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Snooki, The Situation, JWoww and all the rest of the Jersey Shore cast have made the beach destination synonymous with late night partying and a lifes...

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More U.S. Jobs Added in February

Richard Barrington | Posted 05.19.2012

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The U.S. economy added a net total of 227,000 jobs in February, continuing steady employment growth of previous months. However, no aspect of the economy operates in isolation, and there are two outside forces that could throw employment.

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Wandering The Country In An RV, Desperately Looking For Work

Michael Thornton | Posted 11.04.2011

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Originally posted at AlterNet Where are the jobs? That question is on the minds of millions of Americans who have lost jobs during the Great Recessio...

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U.S. Adds 117,000 Jobs In July As Jobless Rate Falls, Beating Expectations

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.05.2011

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NEW YORK -- A day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its worst drop since the financial crisis, fresh data showed a slightly less pessimistic ...

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Millions of Long-Term Unemployed Are Living Desperately on the Edge

Michael Thornton | Posted 09.20.2011

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Congressional Republicans are more concerned about bashing Obama about the current jobs situation than doing anything to improve matters.

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Why Such Weak Jobs Numbers?

Harlan Green | Posted 09.18.2011

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The U.S. economy has become too complex to be understood by one set of statistics -- such as the monthly jobs report. And the resulting wild swings in growth projections can only unnerve the general public.

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Recovery Derailed: June Jobs Report Stokes Fears Of Return To Recession

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 09.07.2011

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This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com Two years after the official end of the Great Recession, much of the countr...

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U.S. Adds 18,000 Jobs In June As Jobless Rate Climbs To 9.2 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 09.07.2011

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The unemployment rate rose and the economy added far fewer jobs than anticipated in June, confirming fears that an economic slump has taken hold and f...

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U.S. Economy Adds Startling Low Number Of Jobs In May

Posted 08.03.2011

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WASHINGTON (Lucia Mutikani) - Employment rose far less than expected in May to record its weakest reading since September, while the jobless rate ...

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Nearly Half Of Detroit Is Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds

Posted 07.07.2011

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Detroit's population fell by 25 percent in the last decade. And of those that stuck around, nearly half of them are functionally illiterate, a new rep...

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Private Companies Add Jobs At Fastest Pace In 5 Years

Posted 07.06.2011

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WASHINGTON (By Lucia Mutikani) - U.S. employment increased more than expected in April as private companies created jobs at the fast pace in five ...

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Does Corporate America Now Grovel Before China?

Posted 06.27.2011

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SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. (Nick Carey and James B. Kelleher) - China's rise as a manufacturing power has benefited American factory owners in at least one ...

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Unemployed 99er Population Rises Dramatically by 127,000. The "Real" Long-term Unemployment Report

Michael Thornton | Posted 06.07.2011

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The March Employment Report showed some job gains, but not nearly enough jobs were created to put a dent in the long-term unemployment problem.

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Unemployment Rate Falls Again In March, Economy Adds 216,000 Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 06.01.2011

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In March, the U.S. economy added 216,000 new jobs, beating Wall Street expectations and continuing a trend of solid job growth. This is the second str...

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CHART: Industries Where Women Still Earn Less Than Men

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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The great recession may have left more American men unemployed then women, sparking cries of a "Mancession", but in 2009, women's median weekly wage w...

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Unemployment 'Math': Statistical Lies

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Parents need to demand that their children learn math. Math literate citizens can will use analytical reasoning to see through the lies of government and the ridiculous insults from the mainstream media.

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An Early Gift: More Companies Beginning to Hire

Robyn Greenspan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Executive job growth in the private sector might be the bright gem found among the lumps of coal in the most recent employment data from the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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There Aren't Enough Jobs For 4 Out Of 5 Unemployed Americans

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

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There simply aren't enough jobs to employ four out of five unemployed Americans, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The to...

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Predict The News: What Will The Unemployment Rate Be?

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will America's unemployment rate finally budge from 9.6 percent? Time to play the guessing game. Gallup puts the number between 9.7 and 9.9 percent, ...

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