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...The US unemployment rate fell to 3.7 per cent from 3.9 per cent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said....
...Christopher Martin: A large scale and sustained program of public investment....
...In West Virginia, two out of every three voters backed Trump’s successful White House bid, higher than any other state....
...Xi Jinping’s China and the rise of the ‘global west’ If the US is to keep its international network of allies together, it will have to persuade its partners that the darkest fears about Russia and China...
...In the state capital of Atlanta, which accounts for two-thirds of its economy, employment is at a record high, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics....
...Fed policymakers — and Wall Street bankers — draw confidence, too, from the state of the job market....
...The cost of the tax credit is a sticking point for Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, the final vote that the president needs to pass the bill in the face of fierce opposition from Republicans....
...The state, which ranks third in the US by population, will withdraw from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation programme on June 26, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said in a statement...
...Powder Springs, a predominantly African-American town of nearly 17,000 in the south-west corner of Cobb County, has been going through its own evolutions in recent years....
...Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation — a programme that offers 13 weeks of extended unemployment aid — took on an additional 500,000 recipients in the same week....
...According to data from the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, the drop in income was worth $543.5bn and larger than economists were predicting....
...The spread of coronavirus in the US south and west this summer has hindered the US economy’s rebound from the depths of virus-related lockdowns and severe outbreaks in New York and neighbouring states in...
..., which extended aid to the self-employed or other individuals who would not qualify for regular unemployment compensation, also decreased last week to 655,707 from 908,800 on an unadjusted basis....
...Divisions within the North as well as the North/South divide....
...New claims in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance programme, which extended aid to the self-employed or other individuals who would not qualify for regular unemployment compensation, fell to 928,488 from...
...According to government data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, oil and gas extraction businesses shed 1,200 jobs last month....
...Yet there is bipartisan agreement on extending the programme, in contrast to the bitter divisions on unemployment benefits and other stimulus measures....
...program aiming to deliver £58m of savings (with a further £30m of other temporary cost containment initiatives in addition)....
...Alexei Kudrin, head of Russia’s audit committee and a former finance minister, estimates that the crisis could see unemployment double to 10 per cent....
...Tui’s got some cash out of Boeing in compensation for its collection of static 737 Max jets....
...Sartorius Stedim Biotech Sector: Pharmaceuticals / HQ: Aubagne, France The French company was born out of a merger of Stedim and Sartorius AG’s biotech division in 2007....
...Lay-offs in the mid-1980s led to high unemployment, and in the early 2000s after a protracted conflict with unions, GM closed both its Anderson divisions....
...But speaking about the possibility of the Democrats winning the House — which could lead to impeachment proceedings against him — on Friday in West Virginia, he said: “It could happen.”...
...While significant tracts of the country suffer from depressed economic conditions — among them rural areas of states such as West Virginia and parts of the Great Lakes — the central bank has to look at the...
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