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Flat Jobs Report Brings Bad News for Obama

The U.S. unemployment rate remained flat in June, which is bad news for President Obama. The economy added 80,000 jobs in June, according to today's monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but they weren't enough to lower the nation's jobless rate of 8.2 percent. Mitt Romney denounced Obama for the "unacceptably high" unemployment rate, saying today's jobs numbers are "another kick in the gut to middle-class families." Romney responded to this morning's report from outside his...Full Story
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