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Unemployment Numbers Rise as Hiring Slows

Business, Economics and Jobs

Employers added only 39,000 jobs last month ? a big decline from October’s 172,000. Private companies created the fewest number since January. The anemic month for the labor sector pushes the national unemployment rate from 9.6 to 9.8 percent. That’s 19 months of a rate over 9 percent, the longest stretch on record. What do […]

Big Macs provide good glimpse of global economy

Development & Education

The equality recession

Business, Economics and Jobs

The real unemployment rate

Business, Economics and Jobs
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How population affects unemployment

Business, Economics and Jobs
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Top of the Hour: New Jobs Numbers, Morning Headlines

Despite across-the-board indications that the U.S. economy would be seeing enormous job growth this month, employers added just 18,000 jobs. Dan Gross, columnist and economics editor of Yahoo! Finance, discusses the stalled labor market in the face of the lowest job growth in nearly a year.

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What new unemployment numbers say about the economic recovery

Business, Economics and Jobs

We get analysis of the new unemployment numbers from New York Times correspondent Floyd Norris and Elizabeth Williamson, White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

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