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Unemployment numbers are out and job losses declined 247,000 in July, while the unemployment rate fell, which could suggest that the recession is nearing an end. But Jack Healy, a reporter for The New York Times, thinks that the decrease in unemployment is a statistical fluke and that without job creation, the economy is not recovering.

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