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A comprehensive look at unemployment figures

By Kat Aaron

September 10, 2008

Revelations that the nation’s unemployment rate reached its highest level in five years in August helped make the economy issue No. 1 on the

Defining the "fundamentals of the American economy"

By Kat Aaron

September 23, 2008

On September 15 — the day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, Merrill Lynch was purchased by Bank of America, and AIG faltered

Employment is worse than you think

By Kat Aaron

May 18, 2009

Everyone knows it’s a tough economy out there. But it may be even tougher than you realize. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 13.

Looking beyond the May unemployment numbers

By Kat Aaron

June 5, 2009

As PaperTrail’s ongoing look behind the numbers, we’re digging into the May unemployment stats. The official unemployment rate is 9.4 percen

FACT CHECK: Is Texas impervious to the recession?

By FactCheck.Org

August 31, 2011

Gov. Perry picks and chooses which economic statistics suit his presidential campaign, and his critics do the same

FACT CHECK: Spinning job growth

By FactCheck.Org

September 8, 2011

Using numbers to their advantage, Romney, Perry and Huntsman each hoped to shadow the other with inaccurate statistics

FACT CHECK: Did Romney’s health care law kill jobs?

By FactCheck.Org

September 27, 2011

Perry campaign using statistics from a unverifiable conservative think tank, and using them often

8 in 10 unemployed Americans say they'd take any job they can get

By John Aloysius Farrell

October 27, 2011

Jobless Americans still believe you can work hard and get rich

Pain persists for the jobless, like the unemployed father who removed his son's braces with a pliers

By John Aloysius Farrell

December 2, 2011

Jobless rate improves but suffering continues for the working poor

Excerpts from this story referencing "Unemployment":

"… a mix of good and bad news.Things are certainly not as awful as they were. Unemployment, overall, dropped from 9 percent to 8.6 percent. For Americans with colleg …"

FACT CHECK: Romney’s shaky job claims

By FactCheck.Org

January 6, 2012

Former Mass. governor used unproven, misleading facts to hail his job creation prowess

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