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Business News // 1 decade ago

U.S. has added more jobs than thought

The U.S. economy added 386,000 more jobs than previously estimated between April 2011 and March 2012, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Slow job growth keeps unemployment rate stubbornly high at 8.2 percent

If U.S. President Barack Obama was looking for a boost to his campaign for re-election from the June unemployment report, he was sorely disappointed.

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Romney snorts at 8.2 percent unemployment

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seized on a stagnant economy Friday, after the Labor Department said the unemployment rate was stuck at 8.2 percent.

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69,000 jobs added; jobless rate 8.2%

U.S. employers added 69,000 jobs in May and the jobless rate ticked higher to 8.2 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

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Unemployment rate dips to 8.1 percent

The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, dropping the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

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GDP up 2.2 percent January through March

The U.S. gross domestic product rose by about 2.2 percent on an annual basis in the first three months of 2012, the Commerce Department said Friday.

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Unemployment drops to 8.6 percent

The Labor Department said Friday the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 8.6 percent in November, the lowest level in 2 1/2 years.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Reid scolds Gang of Six, seeks legislation

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Tuesday chastised the Gang of Six for not producing a deficit-cutting agreement in writing.

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Unemployment drops a tick to 9 percent

The Labor Department said Friday the U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in October, pulling the unemployment rate down from 9.1 percent to 9 percent.

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Obama taps Krueger to lead economic panel

President Obama announced Monday that Alan Krueger was his choice to succeed Austan Goolsbee to lead the Council of Economic Advisers.

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Alan Bennett Krueger (born September 17, 1960) is an American economist, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. On March 7, 2009, he was nominated by President Barack Obama to be United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. In October 2010, he announced his resignation from the Treasury Department, to return to Princeton University. He is among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. On August 29, 2011, he was nominated by Obama to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Krueger grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, and graduated from Livingston High School in 1979.

Krueger developed and applied the method of natural experiments to study the effect of education on earnings, the minimum wage on employment, and other issues.

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