1.0 link 231466 <![CDATA[Obama: Unemployment Likely To Keep Ticking Up]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/obama-unemployment-likely_n_231466.html WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama on Tuesday declined to predict how high unemployment will climb but made clear he expects it to keep worsening for a while as hiring lags behind other signs of economic recovery.

"How employment numbers are going to respond is not year clear," the president said on a day when he was headed to Michigan, home of a particularly battered economy. "My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months."

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