New jobs numbers show little growth
New economic data from the federal government show the economy added a paltry 18,000 jobs in June, pushing the unemployment rate back to 9.2 percent. Dan Gross, columnist and finance editor for Yahoo! Finance, gives his analysis of the numbers.
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