New claims for unemployment insurance fell last week to 466,000, the lowest mark since September of 2008. Even as new claims start to slow down, the unemployment rate continues to nudge upwards. Many economists continue to believe that unemployment won’t turn around until the middle of next year. There were other encouraging signs of [...]
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The National Retail Federation believes the current Congressional stimulus bill promoted by President Barack Obama does not do enough to immediately stimulate consumer spending or to preserve the tens of millions of jobs that consumer spending supports. Steve Pfister, the group’s senior VP, is calling for national sales tax “holidays” to spur consumer spending. With consumer spending [...]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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