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FILE - In this file photograph taken June 23, 2010, Frank Wallace who has been unemployed since May of 2009, displays his frustration during a rally organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, in Philadelphia. The Federal Reserve is powerless to lift the economy out of its slow-growth rut and Congress won't pass new stimulus programs with an election looming. Shoppers are reluctant to spend, and businesses are slow to hire. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file) (AP)

New jobs numbers: Not horribly awful!

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul responds to a question during a candidate forum in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke) (AP)

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Early morning sunlight illuminates the top of the Teton mountain range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 21, 2009. The U.S. Federal Reserve is holding their annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium with visiting bankers from around the globe meeting with Federal Reserve officials, academics and other financial experts. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday said prospects for a return to global economic growth looked good "in the near term," the clearest signal yet the world's most powerful central banker thinks a recovery is at hand. REUTERS/Price Chambers (UNITED STATES BUSINESS) (Â© Str New / Reuters)

"I was wrong again!" What Bernanke meant to say

A home for sale is posted at a reduced price in Palo Alto, Calif., Thursday, June 24, 2010. Mortgage rates fell this week to the lowest level on record, giving consumers added incentive to lock in low payments for home purchases and refinanced loans. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

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Rick Lazio, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, speaks to members of the media during a Landmarks Commission's hearing on the proposed Cordoba Mosque to be built near the site of the former World Trade Center in New York, July 13, 2010. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) (Â© Keith Bedford / Reuters)

Paul Krugman

FILE - In this file photo made July 20, 2010, Orlando Payton uses a computer to look for a job at JobTrain employment office in Menlo Park, Calif. First-time claims for jobless benefits edged up by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 484,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Analysts had expected a drop. That's the highest total since February. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) (AP)

Jobs data: Bad for workers, worse for Democrats

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Associated Press

Mitt Romney

Pedestrians walk by the window display at an Old Navy store in Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) (Kiichiro Sato)

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Employees work at a garment factory in Wuhu, Anhui province, on August 1.

FILE - In this file photograph taken June 2, 2010, shoppers Joselin Pena, left, and her niece Ingrid Romero, center, both of Boston, load packages into their car after shopping at a Target location, in Boston. A monthly consumer survey shows that Americans' confidence in the economy eroded further in July amid job worries. The reading raises concern about the economic recovery and the back-to-school shopping season.(AP Photo/Steven Senne, file) (Steven Senne)

Poll: No one cares about the deficit

HUD's disappointing housing conference

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Alexis de Toqueville, author of "Democracy in America"

King County Executive Ron Sims speaks at a news conference where he announced that President Barack Obama will nominate him to be deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, in Seattle. In a news release, the White House says that Sims would be in charge of HUD's day-to-day operations, a nearly $39 billion annual operating budget and 8,500 employees. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (Elaine Thompson)

30,000 Georgians line up for housing assistance

Labor Dept.: Five unemployed workers per opening

Jeannine Aversa

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