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Camden, New Jersey is one of the poorest citie...
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Millions of American families are about to be broadsided by rising gas and food prices and most of them don’t even realize it.  You see, most Americans stop listening when terms such as “quantitative easing” and “agricultural commodities” are brought up, but when millions more Americans are faced with a choice of either feeding their families or heating their homes this winter, maybe then they will start listening.  Even before the Federal Reserve announced the latest round of quantitative easing, the price of oil has been going up and the price of food has been going up.  Now that the Federal Reserve has announced plans to flood the economy with hundreds of billions more dollars, the inflation monster is going to get even hungrier.  The household budgets of scores of American families are going to be stretched beyond the breaking point as prices rise.

The Price Of Oil Is Going Up, The Price Of Food Is Going Up And Now Here Comes Quantitative Easing.

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Manufacturing employment in Cleveland, OH MSA.

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In August, 403 mass layoff events were reported in the
manufacturing sector, resulting in 46,540 initial claims.
Employers took 1,546 mass layoff actions involving 150,192
workers. Events decreased by 63 over the month, while associated
initial claims increased by 6,489.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mmls.pdf

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Will large numbers of today’s children grow up to become servants and nannies in the homes of the digital bourgeoisie? There is good reason to believe that the answer is yes.

The most pressing issue of the day remains sky-high unemployment. There is, however, almost no consensus about how to think about the the depth of the problems facing the U.S. labor market. Many believe that the staggering unemployment rate is purely cyclical. Karl Smith, an economist at the UNC School of Government, has written a post on “the myth of structural unemployment,” arguing that “the structure of the American economy hasn’t changed that much in the last 24 months.”  read more

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