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Consumer spending is down. That statement is true based on most data collected by the government and private sector. The mystery and misery for retailers and the general economy is when, if ever, the...
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If preview data about employment is any indication, the US government should report a modest uptick in joblessness tomorrow. That would not be particularly surprising give the trend in weekly jobless...
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The back-to-school sales period should be completed within two weeks. New data show that the season failed to produce better results than last year and may even have been worse. “Americans’...
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Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 5-8, 2010, with a random sample of 1,013 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using...
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Under federal law, potential workers cannot be discriminated against for almost any reason including race, religion, or ethnicity. It turns out that what the federal government says businesses are...
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It has been decades since US car companies and their products were viewed as superior to their foreign counterparts, particularly those made by Japanese automakers. Positive ratings of the...
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Forty-five percent of Americans believe they are underpaid. The number should probably be 100%. How many people actually believe that their talents are not worth more money? The press has looked at...
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Behind every American who does not have a job there are apparently many who are concerned about whether they will keep their own. Depending on whether joblessness is 9.6% or the 17% which includes...
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Americans’ despair about the economy shows up so often in research studies that the results have become redundant. But, the malaise actually deepens with each new piece of data. The troubles that...
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Congress has been at the center of most of the revolutions that have affected or will affect life in America now and over the next several decades. There is nothing new about that, but Congress has...
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Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index fell to -34 last week, the lowest weekly average since last July. At the same time, Gallup’s Job Creation Index remains relatively positive. That means that...
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