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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Oh yeah, the economy's humming

AFP:
US jobless claims rose by 16,000 to a six-week high of 336,000 in the week ended July 9, the Labor Department said.

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Meanwhile, the number of former workers collecting unemployment checks rose by 45,000 in the week ended July 2 to 2.62 million, a four-week high.

Once again, the recent drops in the unemployment rate is not because more folks are finding work, but because fewer people are still looking.