Last night, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan repeated Mitt Romney’s pledge to create 12 million jobs in the first four years of his presidency. That’s a pledge that assumes monthly job growth at a pace that Romney once called...
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Republican vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan addresses the Republican National Convention.
Ryan Wants Job Growth at a Pace Romney Called ‘Disheartening’
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Job seekers in Denver, Colorado.
Swing-State Jobless Rates Rise
The unemployment rate rose last month in every battleground state in the presidential election except Ohio. Employers still added jobs in more than half of the electoral swing states, indicating progress in local economies. Competition for job openings heightened as...
Read more »Ryan Runs Against `New Normal’ — White House Warns of Old Normal
The Romney campaign’s rollout of running mate Paul Ryan spoke to a certain, well, malaise. Ryan, the seven-term congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, says he has spoken with a lot of people in the common...
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People attend the launch of the unaffiliated political organization known as No Labels in New York City.
Independents: It’s Not My Party — and I’ll Vote How I Want To
Just one in four voters call themselves Republicans. That’s the finding of the latest Pew Research Center poll, one of the best around. Party affiliation, Pew’s Andy Kohut tells us, is like a political state of mind — it ebbs...
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Mitt Romney during his first campaign rally since arriving back from his overseas trip, at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden, Colorado, on August 2, 2012.
Romney Promising `More Jobs,’ Obama Backing Planned Parenthood
It hasn’t taken Mitt Romney long to take the latest report on jobs to the air — unemployment inching up to 8.3 percent again in July, while 163,000 more jobs were created. “In July unemployment went up again,” Romney’s ad...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign event at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on August 2, 2012 in Golden, Colorado.
Romney Ratchets the Adjectives: `Kick in the Gut, Hammer Blow’
Today, Mitt Romney called the latest report of 8.3 percent unemployment “a hammer blow” to middle-class families. Last month, he called June’s 8.2 percent “a kick in the gut.” In June, he called May’s 8.2 percent “devastating news for American...
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A job seeker speaks with an employer at the Veterans On Wall Street job fair in New York.
Jobs Added: 163,000 — Unemployment Rate Rises: 8.3 pct
Updated at 9:25 am and 9:45 am EDT The monthly gain in jobs in July has nearly doubled the past two months’ anemic reports — and nearly tripled the revised gain for June. Yet the unemployment rate has inched up...
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Job seekers talk to recruiters at a Choice Career Fair in New York, on July 18, 2012.
Typo in the Typo Fix Ties Up the House
One wrong led to another and two embarrassing fixes on the House floor. Republicans needed to repair their anti-regulation bill, H.R. 4078, because of a typographical error. Instead of triggering action when the UNEMPLOYMENT rate falls to 6 percent, the...
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Michelle Obama with supporters and volunteers at the Barbara Goleman High School on July 10, 2012 in Miami Lakes, Florida.
Michelle Obama vs. `War on Women’
It took some time, during President Barack Obama’s campaign for election in 2008, for Michelle Obama to demonstrate her potential political power on the road. The Obama campaign hasn’t wasted any time this year. Still, even as the first lady...
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A waiter at a restaurant in New York.
Waiters w/ College Degrees: Up 81%
It’s harder to change the world on a diet of canned beans and frozen corn, often the dinner staple for 24-year-old Darien Buckley. She has yet to find a job that utilizes her double major in photography and communications after...
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