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Unemployment rate falls as hundreds of thousands give up job search
BY Masao Suzuki | San José, CA | 12/04/11
On Friday, Dec. 2, the U.S. Department of Labor said that the official unemployment rate fell to 8.6% in November, from 9.0% in October. Despite being the lowest unemployment rate since March of 2009, the fall in the unemployment rate was mainly due to the more than 400,000 jobless workers who gave up looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.
economy, Unemployment
Cuts in government spending push economy to edge of another downturn
BY Masao Suzuki | San Jose, CA | 8/01/11
On July 29, the Commerce Department released its report on Gross Domestic Product or GDP for the Second Quarter (April to June) of 2011. GDP, which measures the value of goods and services produced in the United States, rose at only a 1.3% annual rate, much slower than most mainstream economists expected. Even worse, the First Quarter (January to March) economic growth was cut from an earlier estimate of 1.9% to just 0.4%.
Capitalism, double dip recession, economy, GDP, recession, Unemployment
New Jersey protest against high price of gasoline
BY Staff | Newark, NJ | 4/16/11
The People's Organization for Progress held a protest at the busy Bergen Street and South Orange Avenue intersection, April 16.
economy, gas prices, newark, peoples organization for progress, Protest
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