Obama calls on US companies to ‘in-source’ jobs; unemployment falls to 8.5%

Sunday, January 8th 2012 - 05:18 UTC

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President Barack Obama kicked off an effort to encourage US businesses to keep jobs at home instead of outsourcing them overseas, as he rolled out a new election-year theme aimed at courting middle-class voters. Read full article

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the core US unemployment rate is ~ 20%
Jan 08th, 2012 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
yes between 20%-25%, the job report was and is a joke. majority of the job's “created” were temporary/seasonal and are now out of a job. official inflation is around 11%. food, insurance and energy prices up, electronics/house hold appliances down.
Jan 09th, 2012 - 05:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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