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Job creation slowed to a crawl during March, with the U.S. economy creating just 88,000 positions though the unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent.
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Companies are seeking concessions from states and cities to keep jobs local, and the giveaways are adding up to a big bill for taxpayers. The NYT reports.
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Washington state made history on Thursday as the first in the nation to legalize marijuana possession for adult recreational use.
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The New York Times is loffering buyouts to some of its staffers.
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Business activity in the U.S. Midwest expanded for the first time since August, a report showed on Friday, buoyed by an improvement in the labor market.
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Apple's plans to make a Mac line in the U.S. next year offers a glimpse of what the return of American manufacturing will look like.
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The labor strike at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., the two biggest ports in the US, probably won't keep toys and TVs off the shelves for the holiday season, but it is likely to affect white sales and other annual post-Christmas mega-bargains, The NYT reports.
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Randy Kroszner, Professor Of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, shares his opinion of the employment number. Talk of tapering QE seems to have been premature.
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CNBC's Rick Santelli offers his reaction to a dismal March employment report.
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Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs, explains whether the sequester was a bigger deal than we thought.