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Jobs report paints a dreary picture
Poor job growth and a large exodus of unemployed workers last month stifled weeks of upbeat economic data and marked a sobering reality check, signaling that hiring was likely to remain weak in the coming months. Employers added a paltry 88,000 net...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Rate, Business
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Obama seeks deal, proposes cuts to Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-...
Tags: Social Security, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, AFL-CIO
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Hail Armageddon
WASHINGTON -- "The worst-case scenario for us," a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, "is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens." Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Budget Control Act of 2011, Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, National Government
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S&P 500 sets all-time closing high [video chat]
NEW YORK -- The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index broke a half-decade-old record, another sign of stocks' continuing rally this year. The S&P 500 added 6.34 points, or 0.41%, to 1,569.19 Thursday, the last trading day of the first quarter. The S&P 500...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Pinnacle Foods Incorporated, S&P 500, European Debt Crisis, Finance
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The customary crisis
Paul GreenbergHere we go again. And again. And again. ... For in Washington, every day is Groundhog Day. And now, once again, the country is speeding toward the dreaded ... Fiscal Cliff! Not to mention Catastrophe, Chaos and Collapse. Or maybe Stalemate, Train Wreck,...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Air Transportation Delays, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Judaism
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On sequestration, Obama becomes extortionist in chief
At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government "shut down" because of an impasse between President Bill Clinton and House Republicans led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending....
Tags: National Government, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods, The New York Times
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Fan mail, of a sort, for the 'sequester'
There’s little agreement about anything regarding the “sequester” except that the $85 billion in cuts to federal spending this year will be implemented starting Friday. As The Times’ editorialized Thursday: “The irony is...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, National Government, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Ray LaHood
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American reaction to budget cut hype? Yawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a collective yawn. They know the drill: Obama raises the alarm, Democrats and...
Tags: Dow Jones Industrial Average, Government Debt, Air Transportation Industry, Google Inc., Janet Napolitano
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More bogus budget cuts?
I was surprised and pleased to see David Fahrenthold's article on the federal "cuts in spending" approved in 2011 ("'Smoke & mirrors,'" Feb. 24). I wished he would have pointed out the added smoke and mirrors that persists from this president. President...
Tags: Barack Obama
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Charlevoix school district headed for own fiscal cliff
If it continues on its current path, by the end of this school year, the Charlevoix Public Schools may be teetering on the edge of its own fiscal cliff, with just $40,000 in the bank. Jeff Crouse, assistant superintendent with the Charlevoix-Emmet County...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Government Debt, Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance
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Payroll tax cuts? Not necessarily
All I hear these days are complaints that the federal government has raised taxes, dimishing take-home pay. That’s true: The payroll tax holiday was not extended. That holiday cut Social Security contributions and the like, amounting to a 2-...Tags: Pat Quinn, Politics, Holidays, Willow Springs, Executive Branch
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Movies, Naomi Judd
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Fiscal Cliff Photos
Brian OliverSmith, chief executive of Urban Planet Mobi...
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A hard-fought 'fiscal cliff' deal was finally reached o...
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Concerned that Congress will not avert a series of deep...
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