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Conflicting Signals From Latest Economic Indicators
May 16, 2013 The good news: Inflation remains in check. The bad news: Jobless claims are up, and housing starts are down.
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Jobless Claims Changed Little Last Week
September 20, 2012 There were 382,000 first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week, down by just 3,000 from the week before. The pace has changed little over the past year.
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Jobless Claims Rose Last Week; Consumer Prices Fell In May
June 14, 2012 There were 6,000 more unemployed Americans filing for benefits last week than the week before. But inflation remained in check as gas prices plunged.
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Jobless Claims Rose By 13,000 Last Week
April 12, 2012 There were 380,000 first-time claims, the most in a single week since January. It's another sign that the labor market's rebound may be slowing.
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Jobless Claims Dipped Again Last Week
March 29, 2012 The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits remains at a four-year low.
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Jobless Claims Decline By 5,000
November 17, 2011 There were 388,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week.
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Jobless Claims Rose By 11,000 Last Week; Prices Rose 0.4 Percent In August
September 15, 2011 The news on unemployment insurance underscores the weakness of the labor market.
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Unemployment News Coming; River Flooding In Memphis
May 6, 2011 Unemployment report to be released; Mississippi River floods Memphis, Tenn.; the U.S. carried out its first drone attack in Pakistan since killing Osama bin Laden; a British judge rules no British agencies responsible in 2005 terror attack; playwright Arthur Laurents dies
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Federal Aid Comprised Record Part Of Americans' 2010 Incomes
April 26, 2011 Federal aid provided a record amount of the personal income Americans received in 2010, indicating how widespread the support for such spending is and how difficult politically it will be to reduce such outlays.
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Tax Cut Polls Still Give Obama Conflicting Results
December 8, 2010 A Gallup Poll shows large support for Obama's tax cut stance while a Bloomberg poll doesn't. The Gallup survey also shows only 38 percent of conservative Republicans back extending jobless benefits, a sign that maybe Obama got the best deal he could.
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Jobless Benefits Save Jobs, Economy: White House Economists
December 2, 2010 White House economists said failing to extend unemployment benefits would cost 600,000 jobs and slow economic growth by six-tenths of one percent.
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Congress' Lame-Duck, Two-Minute Drill
November 29, 2010 In its waning days, the Democratic-controlled Congress is like a football team that must score by getting passage of important issues like raising the debt limit, extending unemployment insurance and how to do the same with the Bush tax cuts.
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Tales Of Long-Term Unemployed Are Recession's Saddest
August 7, 2010 Some of recession's saddest stories belong to the "99ers" without work for nearly two years. They have run out of unemployment insurance and are getting desperate.
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Goodwin (D-W.Va.) Sworn In, Dems End GOP Filibuster On Unemployment Benefits
July 20, 2010 Armed with the vote of the newly-sworn in Democrat from West Virginia, Senate Democrats end the GOP filibuster on extending unemployment insurance benefits.