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  1. Getting to Work In The Sunshine State: A Defense of Rick Scott

    Fri, 28 Jun 2013

    back a bloated government that had sunk deeply into debt, and rolling back burdensome regulations that hindered business and job growth . In his first year alone he vetoed $615 million from the state budget, and over his term he has overseen the elimination

  2. EU Strikes 2 Major Deals, Stumbles on Unemployment

    Fri, 28 Jun 2013

    it a "drop in the ocean." Leaders also called on the bloc's European Investment Bank to kick-start investment and job creation by boosting lending to small and medium-sized firms by up to 150 billion euros through until 2015. The increase in

  3. EU Budget, Banking Deals Boost Leaders' Summit

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    European Investment Bank, which should boost lending to small and medium-sized companies in crisis-hit nations and foster job creation . Thursday's deal on the budget came only hours after EU finance ministers reached a middle-of-the-night deal determining

  4. US Consumer Spending up 0.3 Percent in May

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    steady housing recovery. And employers added 175,000 jobs last month, in line with the average job growth over the past 12 months. Steady job growth has lowered the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent, down from 10 percent in 2009. And this week

  5. US Unemployment Benefit Applications Fall to 346K

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    home sales and prices are signaling a steady housing recovery. Spending at retail businesses rose in May, a sign that solid job growth has encouraged Americans to open their wallets. And the improving job market has lifted consumer confidence to its highest

  6. German Unemployment Dips to 6.6 Percent in June

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    A seasonal pickup in job creation has helped push Germany's unemployment rate down to 6.6 percent in June from 6.8 percent the previous month. The Federal

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  1. High Above the Hudson, a Battle Over Development

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    by real estate, development and views, this vista has sparked the latest skirmish over construction, conservation and job creation . A collection of stakeholders including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, conservation groups, the Manhattan and Bronx

  2. Reports Reflect Fed's Message of Stronger Economy

    Tue, 25 Jun 2013

    S. employers added 175,000 jobs, which almost exactly matched the average increase of the previous 12 months. Steady job growth has gradually reduced the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent from a peak of 10 percent in 2009. And rising home and stock

  3. Immigration Reform Moves Forward, Massachusetts Goes To The Polls And Snowden Stays Put (The Note)

    Tue, 25 Jun 2013

    MARSHALL report. The book, co-sponsored by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, finds immigration reform is good for job creation and adds to the economy through growth. "Its stagnant," Matthew Denhard, research fellow at the George W. Bush Institute

  4. Speaking Too Clearly Can Have a Price for Leaders

    Tue, 25 Jun 2013

    appetite in either party — or money in government coffers — for expensive new fiscal initiatives to further spur growth and job creation . The previous two Fed chairmen — Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker — often seemed deliberately obscure when discussing

  5. Bush Institute Backs Immigration Reform as Bullish on US Economy

    Mon, 24 Jun 2013

    immigration reform. The book, co-sponsored by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, finds immigration reform is good for job creation and adds to the economy through growth. "Its stagnant," Matthew Denhard, research fellow at the George W. Bush Institute

  6. How Higher Rates Touch Consumers, Firms, Investors

    Thu, 20 Jun 2013

    rates may spook stock and bond traders. But in the long run, a robust economy should sustain the housing rebound, support job growth and encourage businesses to borrow, even at somewhat higher rates. More economic growth should ultimately boost stock prices

  7. How States Fared on Unemployment Benefit Claims

    Thu, 20 Jun 2013

    rose 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 354,000 last week. Despite the gain, the level remains consistent with moderate job growth . The Labor Department says the less volatile four-week average increased 2,500 to 348,250. Here are the states with

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  1. Tulsi Gabbard on 'Next Generation' of Leaders

    Sun, 23 Jun 2013

    that we committed to sticking to and it's been. Relationship building but also very substantive to say in these issues of job creation . Of health care and reducing the deficit we've got to be able to find areas that we can agree on. We may not you know

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    building but also very substantive to say -- in these issues of job creation . Of health care and reducing the deficit we've got to be able to find areas that we can agree on. We may
  2. World Leaders Gather For G8 Summit

    Mon, 17 Jun 2013

    At divergent regulations future. I would rather apparent power companies investing new you know products and services and job creation . That doubled people inspections. Are even separate manufacturing lines. Howard who does need to build bridges there and

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  3. Roundtable I: Privacy vs. Security

    Sun, 9 Jun 2013

    We are in this kind of sour equilibrium. I mean the economy is growing. Jobs are being created. 32 straight months of job growth . The economy is growing. You know, if the growing population, it's a growing workforce, the shares of adults employed

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    the economy is growing. Jobs are being created. 32 straight months of job growth . The economy is growing. You know, if the growing population, it's a growing workforce, the shares of adults employed. We're just creeping
  4. Obama: 'Not Satisfied Until Everyone Who Wants a Job Can Find One'

    Sat, 4 May 2013

    Obama delivers his weekly address on job creation on the road in Costa Rica.

  5. Stocks Surge: Dow Passes 15,000

    Fri, 3 May 2013

    Increase in job growth and drop in unemployment may be reason to celebrate.

  6. Treasury Sec.: Private Job Growth 'Pretty Good'

    Sun, 25 Jul 2010

    Job creation has not as well as we hoped. What more can do I know there's the small to start to invest hard you know we've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector that's pretty good. By the private sector pretty

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    start to invest hard you know we've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector that's pretty good. By the private sector pretty good this ruling written recession although you count in the
  7. Obama Focuses on Job Creation , Growth

    Tue, 8 Dec 2009

    President Obama unveils a series of ideas to generate job growth .

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