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By Christopher Caldwell
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Flickr / edEx
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For the third month in a row, figures coming in from the Department of Labor signal a stronger recovery in the employment market than the country has seen in years. President Obama gets a boost from the good news, but is there any way to read these numbers differently?
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Flickr / swanksalot (CC-BY-SA)
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A measly 18,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in June, far below expectations for a rise of close to 90,000, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2 percent. The numbers are a reality check ... (more)
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 10, 2011
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Flickr / cliff1066™(CC-BY)
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On Wednesday, newly released minutes from the Federal Reserve’s late-January meeting reflected a more optimistic stance vis-à-vis the next phase of the U.S. economy, but unfortunately, the slightly brighter outlook didn’t extend to the Fed’s take on the job market.
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Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Federal Reserve
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There are economic indicators that we want to be on the high end of the scale, but unemployment isn’t one of them. Unfortunately, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the U.S. unemployment rate ... (continued)
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President Obama laid out what he believes his administration has been doing to deal with the employment crisis in America thus far and hinted at forthcoming developments in his plan to create more jobs. During a press conference Thursday he tried to take some of the heat off his administration by stating, “Ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector.”
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Flickr / billaday
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A report released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday gave some indications that, for half of the districts tracked by the Fed and for certain markets, the American economy is slowly starting to revive from its near-death experience last fall.
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