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More Americans than anticipated filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week, a reminder that the labor market will take time to strengthen and may weigh on the economic recovery.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aBMXN4DFRge4


From Information Clearing House

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The Bad Job Numbers and the Secret Second Stimulus

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org: "The Labor Department reports that 85,000 jobs were lost in December. The official rate of unemployment (which measures how many people are looking for jobs) held steady at 10 percent nonetheless. That's because so many more people have stopped looking. Reportedly, 661,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force last month, deciding there was no hope of finding a job. Had they continued to look, the official unemployment rate would have been 10.4 percent."

http://www.truthout.org/110109Reich



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