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• Jobs data highlight voters' top concern
Friday’s report on the job market is expected to show further losses in August, as the economy ranks as the most important issue on voters’ minds. With the employment outlook sluggish at best for the rest of the year, the issue will likely remain ...
• U.S. unemployment rate hits a five-year high
With the employment situation deteriorating, there’s growing worry that consumers will recoil, throwing the economy into a tailspin later this year or early next year.
• Politics aside, would you hire Sarah Palin?
Nancy Cooper, an employment lawyer at Garvey Schubert Barer in Portland, Ore. : All the things that are forbidden in an employment interview are fair game in the public scrutiny of a political candidate.
• Oil slides as unemployment rate soars
There's been a terrific amount of growing concern about the outlook for demand globally," said John Kilduff, senior vice president of risk management at MF Global LLC. "Today's employment report emboldened that concern.
• Dell plans to sell computer factories — report
Dell’s North Carolina plant, for example, received several million dollars of state and local tax incentives that are contingent on the factory meeting certain employment and local-investment goals by 2015.