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Nouriel Roubini: Unemployment Hasn't Peaked, Worst Yet To Come

RGE | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% an...

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Jobless Recovery: New York Times Op-Ed On The Worst Job Market Since WWII

nytimes.com | NYT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

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If you are looking for an economic recovery you can believe in, the October employment report is not for you. ...

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Homebuyer Credit And Unemployment Extension Bills To Be Signed By Obama

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers...

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Unemployment Rate Hits 10 Percent For The First Time Since 1983

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only...

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Reclaiming "We"

Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.

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7,000 Americans Run Out Of Unemployment Benefits Every Day

Yahoo! Finance | Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.Com Senior Writer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

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Another day, another 7,000 people run out of unemployment benefits....

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The Government Needs to Take the Reins In Job Creation

Sen. Arlen Specter | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Recent signs of recovery and those who say the recession is over are cold comfort for the millions who are still searching for work or have stopped looking. Their world is bound by paying the bills and raising families.

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Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You A Dime

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...

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Hey You, with the Company: Hire Me!

Liz Black | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

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I want to have a reason to wake up in the morning, change my clothes and get out of the house. I want to use my creative brain for something more than quirky tweets and stylish outfit choices.

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Debt for a Diploma

Jose A. Garcia | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

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To say debt is the result of poor choices and frivolous spending fails to capture the reality of the economic state of young people today.

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Unemployment For Young Americans Jumps To 52.2 Percent

New York Post | RICHARD WILNER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

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The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent -- a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. -- meaning millions o...

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Jobless Recovery = Sexless Marriage

Chip Conley | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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I wonder whether there's a growing disconnect between how we define macro-prosperity with how it shows up in our micro-lives -- and what kind of psychological damage that does to us.

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Rutgers Report: More Jobs Lost, But Wages Increase

AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

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TRENTON, N.J. — Despite the nation's highest jobless rate in 26 years, American workers are seeing some encouraging trends this Labor Day, accor...

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Teenage Jobless Rate Reaches Record High

New York Times | CATHERINE RAMPELL | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

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This August, the teenage unemployment rate -- that is, the percentage of teenagers who wanted a job who could not find one -- was 25.5 percent, its hi...

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Left, Right & Center: Jobless Labor Day, Afghanistan Plans, ObamaCare, and Back-to-School

Huff Radio | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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New Afghan plans need a major commitment to get the job done -- but Obama is losing support from all sides on this one. And will health care reform be so watered down it's not really reform?

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Labor Day Employment Report: If It's So Good, Why Do I Feel Bad?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

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The results are in -- the Labor Department said that 216,000 were laid off in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million.

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GDP Declines 1 Percent In 2Q, Better Than Expected

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

WASHINGTON — Further evidence the recession is ending came in a report Thursday confirming that the economy shrank at an annual rate of just 1 p...

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Five Reasons for Consumer Caution

Jim Randel | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

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The Great Recession may be technically ending, but I recommend that consumers proceed with caution.

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Weak Job Market Could Dampen Economic Recovery

AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

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New Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly To 576K

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, a sign that jobs remain scarce...

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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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Underemployed?: Recession Pushing More Americans Into Part-Time Work

Washington Post's The Ticker | Frank Ahrens | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

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Unemployed Americans are so discouraged about the prospect of finding a new job that they're checking out of the labor force at the highest and fastes...

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Retail Sales Dip Unexpectedly, New Jobless Claims Rise

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — A bleak report on retail sales Thursday reinforced a nagging worry of economists: Shoppers won't spend enough to help a recovery ta...

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Unemployment Rate Likely Won't Hit 10%: Nate Silver

fivethirtyeight.com | Nate Silver | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business

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In spite of last week's better-than-expected jobs report, many intelligent observers seem convinced that the unemployment rate, which fell nominally t...

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