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Today, we are taking the term Unemployment Check literally, as in “Britney Spears Will Soon Be Collecting One.”
UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK with Britney Spears’ Name On It | Best Week Ever 2007
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Unemployment is at an all high, people are losing their homes because of lack of job or a health crisis and we continue to spend money fighting a war we will never win.
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Unemployment is up. 1 year ago under President Bush it was 5.2%.
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Unemployment is a fiscal and monetary issue; tariffs and trade affect productivity and efficiency, and hence standard of living and wages.
Budget Woes, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"Unemployment is likely to rise in the months ahead, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers warned, as the full impact of the $787 billion economic recovery plan is not likely to be felt until 2010."
White House adviser: Recovery slow but stimulus working 2009
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Greenspan said, "Unemployment is going to be lower, mostly due to people returning to the labor force".
Top economists say unemployment coming down, but slowly 2009
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Unemployment is above 10% and nothing is being done about it.
Analysis: Contentious primaries will precede 2010 Senate elections 2009
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Unemployment is at its highest point since 1983 and rising.
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Unemployment is at the highest level since Ronald Reagan began the destruction of America's middle class.
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Unemployment is likely to rise in the months ahead, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers warned, as the full impact of the $787 billion economic recovery plan is not likely to be felt until 2010.
White House adviser: Recovery slow but stimulus working 2009
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