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New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package As Worthy Step: NYT

nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL COOPER | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

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Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package...

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Sam Stein Talks Jobs, 2010 Elections On The Ed Show With Ed Schultz (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

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Huffpost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on The Ed Show Wednesday and weighed in on the nation's high unemployment rate and what it could mean f...

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In A Canyon, In A Cavern

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

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Lita Smith-Mines

I wanted to enjoy my fleeting feelings of karmic payback, knowing how many toxic loans were closed in these cavernous offices. Instead, I pondered: how many jobs in our altered real estate landscape were lost and gone forever?

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Paul Krugman: Germany's Jobs, Unemployment Miracle Can Teach US

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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Germany's jobs miracle hasn't received much attention in this country -- but it's real, it's striking, and it raises serious questions about whether t...

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Elizabeth Warren: We Rescued The Top Of The System, Left The Bottom To Fend For Itself (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

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Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel charged with monitoring the bank bailout, was on Morning Joe Friday morning to dig in...

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Most Hires Have Always Been Transitory

Samuel H. Williamson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

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Recession Creating A Lost Generation; Young People Can't Find Jobs

BusinesWeek | Peter Coy | Posted 10.11.2009 | Business

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Bright, eager -- and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to y...

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Dean Baker: The Economy Loses 824,000 Jobs And The Washington Post Doesn't Notice

The American Prospect | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media

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One of the big pieces of news in the September jobs report released by the Labor Department yesterday was that the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) p...

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Dan Froomkin

Washington Doesn't Get It: We Need More Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

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Nowhere is the massive disconnect between Washington D.C. and the rest of the country more striking than when it comes to the issue of jobs. Inside ...

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Unemployment and the Manchester Index

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

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tells us that the loss to the nation can't be measured simply by counting the number of unemployed people. We have to deal with the increasing length of unemployment and how it is addressed.

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New Jobless Claims Fall More Than Expected To 550K

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The ending of the recession is reviving global trade, increasing U.S. imports by a record amount in July and boosting foreign deman...

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GDP Declines 1 Percent In 2Q, Better Than Expected

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

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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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Latest Consumer Spending Data Much Worse Than Expected

Sheldon Filger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

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The centrality of the U.S. consumer to the overall global economy has meant his pulling back on a debt induced shopping spree, which has sparked a worldwide synchronized recession.

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Hallelujah, Salvation Is At Hand! Or Is It?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

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Dan Dorfman

Fundamental problems are not being resolved, but rather papered over: the excess debt of low quality, excess speculation in the financial markets and mushrooming debt and deficits.

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The Recession: A New Disaster for Black Men

David Jones | Posted 08.22.2009 | Local

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The dangers of giving so many no hope in the American economy is going to be a fault line that will haunt us for generations if we don't begin to address it.

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Obama: Too Many Jobs Lost

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too ma...

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Ignore the Scaremongers - Watch out for the Truly Scary

Ann Pettifor | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

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Ann Pettifor

Economists and their friends in bond markets are scaremongering in the hope of achieving cuts in government programs, rises in unemployment and lower wages. This is lunacy parading as economics.

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Unemployment Rate: Part-Timers Are Hidden From Data

AP | FRANK BASS | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

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TOWNSHEND, Vt. — When the monthly unemployment figures come out Friday, Greg Noel will go from collecting government statistics to becoming one....

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Jobless Claims At 640K: More Than Expected

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Worse-than-expected news on unemployment and home sales Thursday dampened optimism that a broad economic recovery might be near. M...

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US Likely To Keep Losing Jobs In Coming Months

Bloomberg | Bob Willis and Rich Miller | Posted 05.05.2009 | Business

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The U.S. may suffer further job losses in the coming months after employers cut payrolls by 633,000 in March and the unemployment rate jumped to a 25-...

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White House Warns: "Severe Job Cuts"

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

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BADEN-BADEN, Germany — President Barack Obama says a new report on unemployment in the United States is a "stark reminder" of the global challen...

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Ohio School Janitor Job Gets 700 Applicants

AP | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics

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MASSILON, Ohio — Evidence of the slumping economy is stacking up at an Ohio school which has nearly 700 applications for one open janitorial job...

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The Jobs Market Is Collapsing

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

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The number of people who have been unemployed for 27 weeks and longer is at its highest level since 1982.

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Record Number Of Americans Receiving Jobless Benefits

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Week by week, the numbers that measure the economy get worse, heading toward uncharted territory. The Labor Department released fi...

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Economists May Not Call It Recession, But Job Stats Say It Is

McClatchy | Tony Pugh | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business

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The combination of falling home equity, the rising cost of food, health care and housing, tighter credit and eight straight months of job losses -- 84...

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