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Weekly Audit: Save Jobs, Save the Economy

Posted Oct 13, 2009 @ 7:36 am by ZachCarter
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger

Last month, the U.S. unemployment rate surged to 9.8% as 260,000 people lost their jobs. Although the stock market and corporate profits appear to be recovering from last year’s financial catastrophe, work is harder to find. President Barack Obama and Congress need to act now to get people working again and help soften epic unemployment in years to come. (more…)