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14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

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Geithner On Meet The Press: Worried Banks May Be Too Timid (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

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***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too hi...

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Hiring Tax Credit: Support Builds For Proposal Rewarding Employers For Hiring, More Hours

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07tax.html | Catherine Rampell | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among ...

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Not Your Father's Recovery: Signs Point To Weak Economic Rebound

Washington Post | Neil Irwin | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

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Washington Post: The wounded U.S. economy has shown signs of improvement in recent weeks. But many economists, who were caught off guard by the bruta...

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Hey Americans, You Want Economic Recovery? Spend Some Money, Dammit!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

What we need is a more forceful President Obama encouraging consumers to loosen the purse-strings a bit.

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The Face of Unemployment in New York City

William C. Thompson, Jr. | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

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William C. Thompson, Jr.

I found that the recession's impacts have fallen most heavily on a number of specific groups including men, African-Americans, prime-age workers, and the well-educated.

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A Lost Decade For Jobs

BusinessWeek | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

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Private sector job growth was almost non-existent over the past ten years. Take a look at this horrifying chart:...

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The Seventy Percent Solution

Marco Trbovich | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

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Marco Trbovich

70 percent of the US economy has been dependent on consumer purchasing to sustain economic growth. The portion of workers in the US who do not have a college education is also 70 percent.

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Labor Dept: Solid Job Gains, Wage Growth In November

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Employers added a solid 94,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.7 percent and wages grew briskly, encouragin...

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November Job Growth Is Year's Highest

Reuters | Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Private employers added 189,000 jobs in November for the largest monthly increase in a year, a private employment service said on Wednesday. The bulk...

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