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President Barack Obama’s promised push to create jobs includes a new tax credit for small businesses that add employees –  an idea that clearly appeals to a nation struggling with a nearly 10 percent unemployment rate.

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Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation’s economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010.







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There are signs of recovery in the nation’s heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven and faces many threats.

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Alabama’s most populous county sued JPMorgan Chase and others for a financial disaster that brought it to the brink of what would be the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy.

Reuters – The real estate investment manager who led the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the nation’s largest pension fund, into a money-losing land venture has resigned as an adviser to the fund, a spokeswoman for MacFarlane Partners said on Saturday.

Fed chairman Bernanke  prodded Congress to enact legislation overhauling the nation’s financial regulatory system to prevent a repeat of the banking and credit debacles.

Hasbro Inc, the nation’s second biggest toymaker, said Monday its profit rose 8.8 percent in the third quarter, helped by lower costs and slightly higher sales of Transformers and G.I. Joe toys.

The nation’s top business economists have declared “the Great Recession of 2008-09 is over.” But they aren’t exactly popping champagne corks about what they see coming next.

WHAT does ‘affordable’ mean?
With rising home prices hitting headlines in recent weeks, Singaporeans are falling over themselves trying to pin down affordability.
The Government, which built its reputation housing a nation, has defended its record. It says that public housing is affordable because new home owners use less than 30 per cent of their income to service their housing loans.
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The nation’s poverty rate rose to the highest level since 1997 in 2008, while the number of people lacking health insurance rose to 46.3 million, the Census Bureau reports.