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10 Jan 2012:
Harry J Enten: Economic metrics can be predictive of election results: is the US economy improving enough to keep Obama in the White House?
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8 Jan 2012:
David Blanchflower: Falling unemployment and growing business confidence not only help Obama, but create a conundrum for his GOP opponent
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6 Jan 2012:
Cheer for Obama as job growth accelerates and unemployment rate drops to 8.5% – the lowest level since February 2009
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9 Dec 2011:
Gary Younge: Nowhere is the chasm between America's political class and its working poor more vast than in the demand to cut food stamps
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7 Dec 2011:
Ana Marie Cox: The American middle class hardly needs telling it's struggling: Obama needs to name the enemy, not emote empathy
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2 Dec 2011:
Paul Harris: If every age has its emblematic murders, how grimly apt that the Craigslist killers preyed on their victims' desperation for work
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Video (1min 40sec), 2 Dec 2011:
US president Barack Obama says his most pressing priority is to get the US economy growing faster, after the US Department of Labor announced unemployment in America had fallen to 8.6% in November, its lowest level since March 2009. He also urged Congress to extend its payroll tax cut past the 31 December deadline
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27 Nov 2011:
Editorial: We are rocketing back towards the inequality of the Oliver Twist era
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23 Nov 2011:
Dean Baker: Since the supercommittee's real agenda was to bypass Congress and cut social security, let's give thanks for the 99%
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