March 16 (Bloomberg) — U.S. employers won’t hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the level of 9.7 percent reached in February, three Obama administration economic officials said today. The proportion of Americans who can’t find work is likely to “remain elevated for an extended period,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. [...]

By Ian Swanson – 01/12/10 09:44 AM ET U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue warned the U.S. faces a double-dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama. “Congress, the administration and states must recognize that our weak economy simply could not sustain all the [...]

By Roy Beck, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:20 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA Nobel-award winning economist Paul Krugman can’t figure it out. So, I doubt that he or any of the other hot-shot business and academic experts at Pres. Obama’s jobs summit Thursday will bring up the fact that hundreds of thousands additional Americans [...]

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