uk.reuters.com - 2/5/2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits jumped to a 26-year high last week, according to government data on Thursday that pointed to a rapid deterioration in the economy. U.S. non-farm productivity rose in the fourth quarter, data showed on ...
money.cnn.com - 2/5/2009
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money.cnn.com —
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The number of Americans
filing for first-time unemployment benefits surged last week to
a level not seen since October 1982, according to a government report released Thursday. The number of initial jobless claims jumped to ...
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Initial jobless claims at a 26-year high - Feb. 5, 2009
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Welcome Back To The 1982 Depression
Wonkette » top —
... Congratulations to the 35,000 doomed people who filed new unemployment claims last week — thanks to you unlucky folks, January job losses hit 626,000, the highest unemployment numbers since the Ronald Reagan Recession/Depression of 1982. That was a fun catastrophe. Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Reagan’s Depression? ...
Is an imperfect stimulus bill better than no bill at all?
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
Every politician and pundit under the sun is currently riding their own personal hobby-horse. And the usual Republican suspects have been mounting a very effective media campaign based more on political opportunism than their backing for policies that visibly failed over eight years of trying - after all, we're where we are now, not some happier deregulated, tax-cutting utopia.
Meanwhile:
The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits jumped to a 26-year high last week, according to government ...
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