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By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first increase in three weeks. Still, the broader trend points to a slowly healing jobs market. The government says applications for unemployment benefits rose 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 412,000 for the week ended April 9. That left applications at their highest point since mid-February. Applications near 375,000 are consistent with a sustained increase in hiring. Applications peaked during the recession at 659,000. The four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, rose to 395,750. However, ...
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Is the Unemployment Report Good News?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in December -- all in the private sector -- and the unemployment rate dropped from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics just announced. From the Atlantic Wire The numbers come on the heels of a disappointing November jobs report that yielded only 39,000 new jobs, around 100,000 fewer than anticipated (the December report revised November jobs up to 71,000). The unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since May 2009. What should we make of the numbers? Another Big Miss, states Joe Weisenthal at Business ...
Photographer Captures Upside of Recession
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe recession was hard on a lot of people, but one Los Angeles photographer has found great personal satisfaction documenting the positive effects the recession has had on people. She's Remy Haynes, and the inspiration to show the good things that can happen during bad times came during a downtime in her career doing ads for companies such as Microsoft, AT&T and Verizon. "During the summer of 2009, work became slow," she told AOL News. "Even worse, I felt uncreative. A lot of my friends were depressed, and I realized it's up to me to figure out what I'm going to do." Remy ...
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Tax Cuts and Unemployment Benefits: It's a Win-Win!
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John Boehner Cries and Atlas Shrugs
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMy mother once complained about a TV show that featured too much "full frontal crying." Crying is not pretty. Even the most attractive folks don't look good with their faces scrunched up, and a swollen red nose, and tiny slits where eyes used to be. Ugh. I've watched the footage: John Boehner Gets Weepy, Frequently. What's the big deal? I don't care a thing for the Iron John defense of male crying. I just think some people live in a cornball universe. Take James Stewart. Politically he was so conservative that he and his former roommate Henry Fonda had to stop talking politics in order to ...
David Brooks Says Unemployed Care More About Values Than Jobs
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- The latest economic growth numbers aren't good: The economy grew just 2 percent in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported today. It's a "slight uptick" from the previous quarter, reports The New York Times, but not enough to put a dent in the country's 9.6 percent unemployment rate. "The economy needs to produce 130,000 to 150,000 jobs a month just to keep pace with population growth, a number it has not hit in many months," the Times continues. You would think jobs would be the primary concern of the large number of unemployed, but not so, says The New York ...
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