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On average, students with loans are graduating with more than $25,000 in debt. The federal government pours $140 billion a year into federal grants and loans. Unemployment remains high, yet there are projected shortages in many industries, with some...
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She asked about families, namely those like hers that are struggling with long-term unemployment. “I wasn’t going to let this opportunity go,” she said. “I wanted to make sure he heard me, and I feel like he did.” Wedel said her husband was laid off...
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On a macro level, we have a positive view of the strong government-led developments in Saudi Arabia, mainly focused on initiatives to diversify the Kingdom's oil-based economy and address its high unemployment rates. The consistently expanding...
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The private equity firm was founded in 1985, after the buyout divisions of the European asset manager Schroder were spun off as a separate business. Since then, it has weathered the reunification of Germany, the creation of the euro as well as the slow...
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But they’re trying their best. In GOP circles, there is more than a whiff of panic in the air. Unemployment is still painfully high, Americans remain dissatisfied with the country’s direction, even the most favorable polls show President Obama’s...
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He must claim credit for the direction of the economy (assuming it stays positive) while shifting blame for the depth of current problems. Republicans have a simpler task. They need to offer a credible economic alternative, while pointing out that Obama...
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"It seems like just in the last couple days its gone up 10, 15 cents a gallon," said Austin motorist Chris Hyatt. At $3.72 per gallon, the cost of gas hit its highest price for a President's Day weekend. Over the past month, the average price for a...
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Nevertheless, some disputes and frictions have also arisen in this process. This remains particularly obvious at a time when the US is still facing a weak economic recovery and plagued by a stubbornly high unemployment rate, for which China is...
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Ashburn said his 12 years as a county supervisor are "on the books" of the county retirement system but he's not collecting a county pension check now. He said he's a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System because of his...
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October 2009: At this point, the “low point” of the Obama recession, the participation rate was an even 65% just in time for unemployment to hit an even 10%. , 55% of the American work force was working. January, 2012: As unemployment stood at 8.3%,...
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Since the financial collapse, the Irish government has been promoting the country’s affordability and its links to the U.S. as it tries to create 100,000 jobs by 2016 and reduce unemployment of 14.2 percent. Real estate in Ireland is “a steal,” Clinton...
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Almost 80 unemployed people are chasing every job vacancy in Hull, research has revealed. Aberdeen was found to be the best city to find a job, with around one unemployment claimant per vacancy, said the job search website Adzuna. The North fared...
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But the far bigger error, amid the furore that followed, was the Government's abject failure to defend a rather sensible, if limited, effort to tackle youth unemployment. The suggestion that people were being asked to work for nothing led to a storm of...
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Australia recorded its worst annual jobs growth in 19 years in 2011 as Europe’s escalating debt crisis damaged confidence, and house prices weakened. The jobs market has shown signs of revival this year as employers added the most workers in 14 months...
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Since the financial collapse, the Irish government has been promoting the country’s affordability and its links to the U.S. as it tries to create 100,000 jobs by 2016 and reduce unemployment of 14.2 percent. Real estate in Ireland is “a steal,” Clinton...
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Students with loans are graduating on average with more than $25,000 in debt. The federal government pours $140 billion annually into federal grants and loans. Unemployment remains high, yet there are projected shortages in many industries with some...
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There are also concerns about inexperienced Islamist officials’ ability to run finance ministries. But the region’s Islamist parties appear to be conscious of these risks, and determined to mitigate them. They know that they need economic growth to...
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But the stock market turns out to be a pretty good predictor, too.The Dow Jones industrial average has soared 62 percent since President Barack Obama took the oath of office during some of the darkest days of the Great Recession. The Dow was just below...
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Caixin: Democracy in Taiwan http://t.co/wprWqraz The antidote to Global Times editorials: Caixin. :)
Another reason why Ma's support has been dwindling in the last four years emanates from rising economic inequality in Taiwan. From a macroeconomic perspective, Ma's Taiwan should be many nations' envy. The unemployment rate is merely 4.3 percent, down...
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