Rep. George Miller will retire at the end of his term, he announced Monday. The California Democrat is a close ally of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the health law. The New York Times: California Democrat To Retire From House ...
The troubled rollout of Obamacare has made it so unpopular it is now being blamed for health insurance problems it had nothing to do with, according to a new report. Nearly half of upper-middle-income Americans (those with annual household ...
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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News The U.S. trucking industry added 100 jobs in December compared with November as the overall unemployment rate dropped to 6.7%, the Labor Department reported Jan. 10. December’s increase in trucking ...
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On January 10, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that in November last year the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-28) was 10.9 percent, stable since May, and ...
U.S. employers added a scant 74,000 jobs in December, the fewest in three years. The disappointing gain ends 2013 on a weak note and could raise questions about the economy's recent strength. The Labor Department says the unemployment ...
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in a month for the week ended Jan. 4, the Labor Department reported. Claims fell 15,000 to 330,000, lower than the 335,000 average estimate from economists ...
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Americans' concerns about stomach ulcers and other stress-related health problems rose sharply during the recent recession, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed Google search patterns from December 2008 through the end of 2011 ...
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This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
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The upturn in the eurozone private sector economy gained momentum in December. Although the recovery remained modest and fragile overall, growth of output was nonetheless recorded throughout the second half of 2013. At a three-month high ...
Struggling US computer giant Hewlett-Packard plans to slash 5,000 more jobs than previously announced because of a difficult business environment, a regulatory filing shows. HP will eliminate 34,000 positions by the end of its fiscal year ...
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The U.S. economy expanded at a 4.1% annual rate in the third quarter, the strongest since the final three months of 2011 and up from an estimate of 3.6%, the Commerce Department said Dec. 20. Economists' forecasts for gross domestic ...
ICE Cotton traded almost unchanged this week, a slow, low-volume follow-up to last week’s strong gains. Cert stocks have steadily fallen to around 40k bales, with no new crop bales yet to turn up. Export sales this week were better ...
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Tire shipments are expected to increase more than 4%in 2013 to 297 million units,according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association(RMA).This represents an increase of 12 million units compared with 2012. In 2014,RMA expects demand ...
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Initial jobless benefit claims rose to their highest level since March in the week ended Dec.14,the Labor Department reported. The rise reflects fluctuations that usually happen around the end of the year due to holiday-related ...
The chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) predicts that the construction industry will add as many as 300,000 new jobs next year to decisively rebound from a recession that had crippled it. This could mean ...
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