Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that the US jobless rate, already at its highest level in more than a quarter century, is likely to worsen for several months. "My expectation is that we will probably continue to …
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
The big problem for the economy: Consumers can no longer use big gains in stock prices or housing values as a sort of piggy bank for spending, Haveman said. Those bulwarks of consumerism have toppled. "There is no ATM left for the consumer to tap," …
L.A. Watts Times (subscription), CA
Mann, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and his team surveyed 151 people with diabetes, 58 percent of whom were Latino and 34 percent of whom were African American. Most had annual incomes below $30000. The study participants had …
Indianapolis Star
By Mary Beth Schneider Several thousand union workers packed the Statehouse on Monday to demand that their unemployment benefits not be cut as lawmakers scramble to resolve differences on how best to fix the state's bankrupt jobless fund.
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Gary Post Tribune
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
Kindle kind to Amazon fortunes: Amazon.com Inc., expanding into digital downloads of music and books to boost sales, said demand for the Kindle electronic reader beat its estimates. "Kindle sales have exceeded our most optimistic expectations," Chief …
New York Times
Bizjournals.com
The California Assembly on Monday unanimously voted in favor of a bill designed to lengthen unemployment payments in the state. Now the bill, which would add 20 weeks to such benefits, goes to the state Senate.
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
But Silicon Valley looks to be in a strong position for a national agenda that's moving toward the application of technology and creativity to the world's problems. It's not going to be helping anybody in 2009, but the national agenda moves toward the …
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