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Letters: America's well-paid workers
Re "Go ahead, ask for a raise," Opinion, May 14 Barbara Garson's argument rests on the claim that from 1971 to 2007, worker productivity soared while inflation-adjusted worker well-being barely budged. This premise is faulty. Garson uses wages...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace
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California's unemployment rate drops to 9%
California’s pace of job creation slowed in April, as employers added 10,300 jobs in April, nevertheless pushing the state’s unemployment rate down to 9% from 9.4% the month before. Employers had added twice as many jobs in March as they did...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Employment, Unemployment, Career and Workplace
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Federal deficit shrinks at surprising rate
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...
Tags: Eric Cantor, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Ryan, Elections
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Do your patriotic duty: Ask for a raise
The downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier....
Tags: Prices, Finance, Employees, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace
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Consumer prices fall 0.4% on cheaper gas
A sharp fall in the cost of gas drove a measure of U.S. consumer prices down last month by the most since December 2008. Outside the drop in fuel costs, prices were largely unchanged. The consumer price index fell 0.4 percent in April from March, the...Tags: Labor Markets, Consumers, Finance, AAA, Inflation and Deflation
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Eurozone economy shrinks in first quarter, marking longest recession
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON -- The Eurozone economy contracted 0.2% in the first three months of the year compared with the previous quarter, marking the region's longest recession since its single currency was created in 1999. The 17-nation Eurozone now has been in...Tags: European Central Bank, Central Bank, Money and Monetary Policy, Italy
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Honeybee decline linked to disease, parasites, genetics, report says
A new federal report has found that the nation's honeybee decline, which threatens up to $30 billion worth of agriculture production, is being caused by several factors, including disease, parasites and poor genetics. After colony collapse disorder...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Stakes are huge in Malaysian election
NEW DELHI — Malaysia faces its most significant election in decades Sunday, as voters choose between the longtime ruling coalition touting its steady hand and an untested opposition alliance promising economic and political reforms. The stakes are...
Tags: Malaysia, Government, Customs and Tradition, Religion and Belief, Colleges and Universities
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Obama stumps for his stalled economic agenda in Texas
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Thursday that the United States was “poised for progress,” but accused Congress of thwarting his efforts to get new economic initiatives off the ground. Speaking at a high school in Manor, Texas, Obama said...
Tags: Ted Cruz, White House, Parties and Movements, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Jay Carney
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Energy stocks lead a turnaround on Wall Street
Investors remained cautious at the start of a big week for company earnings on Wall Street. About a third of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, including Exxon Mobil and Apple, are reporting earnings this week. Analysts currently expect...
Tags: Investments, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Companies and Corporations, Netflix Inc.
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Student debt could hamper future economic growth, study says
Looming student debt could hamper future economic growth as young people tamp down on spending and borrowing in the years to come. Compared with counterparts not saddled with student loans, these young workers are less likely to take out mortgages or...
Tags: Consumers, Housing Industry, Loans, Employees, Federal Reserve
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Economists rebut, sort of, critique on high-debt, low-growth study
Harvard economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, authors of a widely-cited paper suggesting that high government debt levels lead to low growth -- have responded defensively to a new paper suggesting that their results were due to mathematical and...
Tags: Paul Ryan, Science and Technology
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