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• Bleak jobs data keep economy at center stage
Initially contained to a few hard-hit sectors like construction and financial services, the weakness in the job market has now spread to most industries.
• Cindy McCain's GOP convention speech
Towns deserted by industries once at their center. Mothers with no choice but to send their children to unsafe and underperforming schools. But I have also seen the resilience of the American people.
• McCain hopes to highlight economic strengths
Though economists are divided on whether the United States has entered a recession, the economy continues to show surprising strength — particularly in farming and manufacturing industries critical to several important swing states.
• Ethanol, once darling, is losing some luster
Kevin Landis, manager of the Firsthand Alternative Energy Fund, said subsidies and tax credits work well to encourage initial investment in burgeoning industries such as ethanol, wind and solar, but businesses eventually need to compete without them.
• Evacuees pine to return after Hurricane Gustav
... has caused serious damage in our state," Jindal said before leaving Baton Rouge for a helicopter tour of the mostly rural, low-lying parishes along the state's southeastern and central coast, also home to the state's oil and natural gas industries.