US Senate Passes Unemployment Extension
Brevard Time
By Jennie L Phipps | MLive.com Contributor AP The US Senate voted Saturday morning to extend federal unemployment insurance for two months, so Congress could go home for the holiday and fight about this issue again after the first of the year. The US Senate passed a bill which had a provision for renewed unemployment [...]
Read MoreUnemployment rate falls to 8.6 percent, lowest in 2½ years, with good signs …
Washington P
The national unemployment rate has fallen from 9% to 8.6%, its lowest point since March 2009. But no one, least of all the Obama Administration, should be jumping for joy. While 120000 jobs were created, 315000 gave up The national unemployment rate has fallen from 9% to 8.6%, its lowest point since March 2009. But [...]
Read MoreNovember Unemployment rate drops to 8.6%
CBS News
By Charley Blaine on Fri, Dec 2, 2011 12:31 PM US stocks struggled to hold onto gains after a government report showed the national unemployment rate dropping to 8.6%, its lowest level since March 2009, and payrolls rising by about 120000. The nation's unemployment rate, however, fell sharply to 8.6 percent from 9 percent in [...]
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