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State economic forecast bodes ill for jobless

Jun. 16, 2009
The state budget crisis will pour salt in California's economic wounds and help push the statewide unemployment rate to 12.1 percent by the end of 2010, according to a bleak forecast issued today. "California's state government, saddled with anachronistic...
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Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler