Recent Votes

• Job growth chills in spring after thawing in winter

  Spring usually means a thaw, but that's not the case for the U.S. job market. The burst of hiring that came last winter, which raised hopes the job market was improving, apparently was just a short reprieve in the slowest recovery in six decades. As the state of the re …

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• AP survey: Steady job gains to sustain US recovery

  Hiring through the rest of 2012 will lag the brisk pace set early this year. But it will be strong enough to push the unemployment rate below 8 percent by Election Day.

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• Today Show Hurt Its Journalistic Brand By Letting Palin Co-Host

  Source: mediaite.org

  One of the biggest media stories of the past week was NBC’s decision to have Sarah Palin co-host The Today Show alongside Matt Lauer to try and compete with Katie Couric‘s star power on GMA or something. So naturally, it came up today as one of the big topics on CNN&r …

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• A History Of Republicans Slamming Judges

  Source: Talking Points Memo

  If the week of April 2, 2012, goes down in political history, it’ll be for the fact that Republicans suddenly rediscovered their reverence for the third branch of government. What brought about the change of heart? President Obama’s comments on Monday and Tuesday i …

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• US economy adds 120K jobs, jobless rate at 8.2 pct

  Employers pulled back sharply on hiring last month, a reminder that the U.S. economy may not be growing fast enough to sustain robust job growth. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work.

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