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New Data Show Net Job Growth Under Obama

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 09.27.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Payrolls, Employment, President Obama, Elections 2012, Jobs, Nonfarm Payrolls, Job Growth, Private Payrolls, Election 2012, Benchmark Revisions Job Growth Obama, Business News

A tiny, routine revision in some jobs data could have a big political payoff for President Obama. The Labor Department on Thursday morning quietly ...

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Economist: 'Existing Small Businesses Are Unlikely To Expand Before The Election'

AP | Posted 11.06.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Video, Small Business, Unemployment Rate, Employment, Payrolls, Business Owners, Adp, National Federation of Independent Business, Jobs, Job Creation, Ap, Small Business News

NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses created no jobs last month, according to a survey released Thursday by the National Federation of Independent Busin...

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The Private Sector Is Actually Sort Of Fine

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 06.08.2012 | Business
Read More: Non-Farm Payrolls, Politics, Unemployment, Economics, Economy, Payrolls, President Obama, Jobs, Obama, Video, Business News

By now you've probably heard about this awful gaffe President Obama made, calling the private sector "fine." Except from the old-fashioned standpoint ...

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Last Year's Jobs Gains Helped Those Hit Hardest By Recession

AP | By DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 01.06.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, U.S. Labor Department, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, Economic Policy Institute, Great Recession, Payrolls, Jobs, Jobless, Manufacturing, Immigration, Retail, Harvard, Technology, Business News

WASHINGTON -- For many people whose job prospects faded most during the recession, 2011 brought a small dose of relief. When unemployment was surging...

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Private Sector Job Growth Picked Up In November

Posted 11.30.2011 | Business
Read More: Video, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, ADP National Employment Report, Stocks, John Thomas Financial, Private Sector, Employment, Payrolls, Jobs, Job Growth, Job Creation, Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, Business News

The pace of job growth in the economy's private sector accelerated in November, with U.S. employers adding 206,000 jobs, a report by a payrolls pr...

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U.S. Companies Plan Little Hiring, Firing Over Next Six Months

Posted 12.24.2011 | Business
Read More: European Debt Crisis, Layoffs, Video, Unemployment, Payrolls, Hiring, Jobs, Jobless, National Association of Business Economics' Industry, Firing, Recession, Business News

U.S. companies do not plan to significantly increase payrolls over the next six months but neither do they intend to aggressively fire workers, ac...

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Jobless Rate Hits Two-Year High

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Unemployment Rates, Jobless Rates, Job Cuts, Unemployment Reports, Unemployment, Payrolls, Business News

Hiring practically stalled in December, driving the nation's unemployment rate up to a two-year high of 5 percent and fanning fears of a recession. E...

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