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Topic: Unemployment (page 20)

Jeffrey Immelt

President Barack Obama talks about the latest reports showing a decline in the unemployment rate as he highlights his economic policies in a speech on the factory floor of the Thompson Creek Window Company in Landover, Md., Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Obama also announced Gene Sperling as the new head of the National Economic Council. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Christina Romer, Peter Orszag and Larry Summers

Inside "Obama's job search

Unemployed workers use computers to search for jobs at the Virginia Employment Commission's Reemploy Virginia office in Mechanicsville, Va.

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President Barack Obama pauses to answer a question during a news conference on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Private agency: Dec. best jobs month for a decade

Christopher S. Rugaber, Paul Wiseman

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gives the keynote address at the New Hampshire Republican Party State Convention in Concord, New Hampshire September 25, 2010. REUTERS/Joel Page (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Reuters)

Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke

President Barack Obama, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, speaks briefly in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, before giving the microphone to Clinton, where he talked about Obama's urging of the Congress to move on the tax compromise he made with Republican congressional leaders. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Darlene Superville

U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) addresses the group Americans for Prosperity as they hold a rally on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, November 15, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

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Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) listens during a news conference in the Capitol in Washington on a plan for U.S. troop de-escalation in Iraq February 6, 2007. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

In this Nov. 30, 2010 photo, Mark Chavez, second from right, waits in a line to register at a career fair in San Diego. More Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week, but the broader trend in layoffs still points to a slowly healing jobs market. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (Gregory Bull)

The American jobs emergency requires action -- now

Felicia Robbins talks about the expiration of her jobless benefits and her life with her five children at a Pensacola, Fla. homeless shelter on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Robbins lost her job as a juvenile justice worker in 2009 and her last $235 unemployment check will arrive Dec. 13. Her 10-year-old car isn't running, and she walks each day to the local unemployment office to look for work. (AP Photo/Melissa Nelson) (AP)

In this Nov. 29, 2010 photo, a row of GM vehicles are displayed at a GM dealership in Redwood City, Calif. Sales of General Motors cars and trucks rose 11 percent last month, a sign that the auto industry's slow recovery is gaining traction.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (Paul Sakuma)

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The sun is starting to shine on the economy

Christopher S. Rugaber

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FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo, a line of job applicants snakes through a rope-line to attend the CUNY Big Apple Job Fair, in New York. In the previous survey in July, the economists predicted unemployment of 8.7 percent at the end of next year. In the survey before that, they foresaw 8.4 percent. Some now think unemployment won't drop to a historically normal 5.5 percent to 6 percent until at least 2018 _ several years later than envisioned earlier.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file) (AP)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responds to a question during a question-and-answer hour with invited students from various Rhode Island colleges and universities in Providence, R.I., Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) (AP)

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