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William Bradley: McCain TV Starts -- Vulnerability Wrapped In A Message Of Strength
And they're off. While Barack Obama tours swing states, John McCain advertises in swing states, launching the first TV ad of the general ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Tom Alderman: Outsourcing: You Get What You Pay For!
The whole off-shore outsourcing thing is very baffling. It helps the Economy - it hurts the Economy. Steve Jobs likes it - Lou Dobbs is apoplectic. Don't we have enough conflicting information to... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Statement from Senator Barack Obama on this month's jobs report:
Senator Barack Obama on this month’s jobs report Today’s jobs report is deeply troubling. Last month, our Economy lost 49,000 jobs and the ... Full Article At Barack Obama - Obama HQ
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Jobs lost, unemployment up: 2008 focus
by Mark Silva At the gate of the general Election campaign of 2008, Unemployment is up. The rate of joblessness made a 10-percent jump in May - rising from 5 percent ... Full Article At The Swamp
Unemployment Rate Surges
Report out Friday says 49,000 U.S. jobs were lost in May, the Unemployment rate is up to 5.5%.... Full Article At Time - The Page
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News Puts Economy Atop Political Agenda
A historic leap in oil prices, tumbling stocks and the biggest jump in Unemployment in over two decades pushed economic issues back to the forefront of the political Debate yesterday. The cascade of... Full Article At Washington Post
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Do Nothing Dem Congress Slow-Bleeding US Auto Industry
heydon't Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that This just in: GM, Ford, Toyota Plunge as Buyers Reject Big Trucks . General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest auto retailers in the U.S., said June sales... Full Article At Redstate
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House Leaders Reach Iraq War Funding Deal Without Deadline For Withdrawal
House leaders struck a bipartisan deal on Wednesday night on a major spending measure that would provide money for the war in Iraq through the end of the Bush administration, establish a significant new Education benefit for ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Democratic party under new leadership is changing strategies
Obama is tailoring his campaign to the new reality. He has moved past the "old politics" already and taking the Democratic Party with him, according to a report in the ... Full Article At Prairie Weather
More jobs losses; candidates respond
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro June saw a loss of 62,000 jobs and Unemployment held at 5.5%, according to a new government jobs report. VIDEO: A Race for the White House panel discusses ... Full Article At MSNBC - First Read
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Economy Sheds 62,000 Jobs in June
New Labor Department figures show Unemployment rate holding steady at 5.5%.... Full Article At Time - The Page
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Employers Cut Jobs For Sixth Straight Month
Washington — Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the Economy's fragile state. The ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Obama: Give economy $50 billion boost
New York (CNNMoney.com) — On the first day of what is to be a two-week economic tour around the country, Barack Obama said Monday he thinks lawmakers need to inject another $50 billion immediately... Full Article At CNN - Political Ticker
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The battle of the pockets is joined
The candidates' tax and spending plans are examined THE most recent Unemployment figures have hit Washington like a brick: the ... Full Article At Economist - US Election 2008
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Beth Shulman: Punishing Workers Who Must Work Part-Time
As temperatures rise, so do Unemployment rates as out-of-work job-seekers enter the stifling summer months wondering how long they will be out of work. According to the Labor Department's monthly employment report, the nation's jobless... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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House Leaders Reach Deal On Supplemental alJournal.com
House Democratic and Republican leaders and the White House have reached a tentative agreement on a war supplemental spending bill, which includes an extension of up to 26 weeks of ... Full Article At Live Search News
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Jared Bernstein: Since Bad Government Costs the Same as Good, Let's Choose Good
You may not have noticed some interesting Republican flips that occurred in the DC-policy world in recent weeks. In both cases, top conservatives, most notably President Bush and candidate... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Further signs of the deepening gloom: the candidate can’t shake it
Oh yeah, we know the Ugly Lie and Racist Pitch is all you really have to sell. In February of 1986 I was in college. I was also managing an apartment complex. Though I didn’t know it then, we’d just conceived our third daughter. Nationally, that month, ... Full Article At American Street
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Bush tells Congress to pass Iraq funding
President Bush, seeking to better his negotiating position ahead of votes on a huge Iraq War-funding bill, said Saturday that U.S. troops "deserve better" than the treatment they are getting from the ... Full Article At Seattle Times
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Iraq War Spending Bill Passes By Congress
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a $162 billion war spending plan Thursday, sending to President Bush legislation that will pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office. The package, approved 92-6, includes a doubling... Full Article At HuffingtonPost