May 23, 2013
Associated PressJobless claims are showing gradual improvement, but for hiring to strengthen enough to lower the unemployment rate to a more
normal level, companies must gain more confidence in the economy.
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May 3, 2013
Associated PressThe only sectors of the economy that cut jobs last month were construction and government.
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April 26, 2013
Associated PressSeveral companies, including Amazon.com, released weak earnings Friday and the government reported that the U.S. economy expanded
at a slower rate in the first quarter than economists were expecting.
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April 9, 2013
Associated PressEconomists point to several likely reasons for the disparity between a surge in job openings but only a modest rise in hiring.
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March 7, 2013
Associated PressThe number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell to a seasonally adjusted 340,000 last week, driving down the four-week
average to its lowest level in five years.
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January 4, 2013
Associated PressU.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during the tense negotiations to resolve
the fiscal cliff.
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November 7, 2012
Associated PressThe Dow Jones industrial average plummeted as much as 369 points, or 2.8 percent, in the first two hours of trading. It recovered
steadily in the afternoon, but slid into the close and ended down 313, its biggest point drop since this time last year.
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November 1, 2012
Scott OlsonThe economy in 2013 is likely to mirror the slow-growing one of this year, economists from Indiana University’s Kelley
School of Business predicted Thursday morning. And it could be even worse.
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October 27, 2012
Dan HumanThe state lost an estimated 1,400 manufacturing jobs in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, and a wave
of layoff announcements in recent weeks suggests steeper declines are coming in the year’s final quarter.
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October 19, 2012
IBJ StaffIndiana’s unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent in September, the first decline for the rate since April, despite a loss of
6,000 private-sector jobs.
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October 12, 2012
Scott Olson
The U.S. economy is expected to grow next year at a less-than-ideal rate, but that's not necessarily a bad thing
considering the lingering uncertainty, said John Augustine, chief investment strategist of Fifth Third Bank.
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October 5, 2012
J.K. WallA survey of Hoosier business owners shows an increasingly a ho-hum outlook, with only one in seven optimistic for their own
company and even fewer encouraged about the U.S. economy.
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October 4, 2012
Associated PressThe number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 367,000 last week, a rise of 4,000 from
the previous week. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, was unchanged at 375,000.
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October 1, 2012
J.K. WallFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a local lunch crowd that he expects the economy to keep growing, but he said the
growth is so slow that it could create a "permanent group" of underemployed Americans.
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September 27, 2012
Associated PressThe number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits plunged to its lowest level in nine weeks. Other economic figures released
Thursday were mainly disappointing.
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September 20, 2012
Associated PressThe Labor Department said Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits declined by 3,000 last week, to 382,000. The
four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose for the fifth straight week, to 377,750, the highest level in nearly three
months.
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September 13, 2012
Associated PressThe Federal Reserve unleashed a series of bold and open-ended steps Thursday designed to stimulate the economy by boosting
the stock market and making it cheaper for people to borrow and spend. Stocks surged after the announcement.
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September 7, 2012
Associated PressThe unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, the Labor Department said Friday. But that was only because
more people gave up looking for work. Hourly pay fell, manufacturers cut the most jobs in two years and the number of people
in the work force dropped to its lowest level in 31 years.
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September 6, 2012
Associated PressA long-anticipated plan to support struggling countries in the European Union provided the necessary jolt, and the gains were
extraordinarily broad.
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August 23, 2012
Bloomberg NewsThe number of Americans filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits climbed last week to a one-month high, showing
little progress in the labor market.
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August 16, 2012
Associated PressThe recession that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression.
Growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been
slower.
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August 3, 2012
Associated PressU.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department said Friday, a somewhat hopeful sign after three months of
sluggish hiring. However, the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent, up from 8.2 percent in June.
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July 27, 2012
Associated PressThe 1.5-percent growth rate in the second quarter was the weakest since the economy expanded at a 1.3-percent rate in the
July-September quarter last year. The U.S. economy has never been so sluggish this long into a recovery.
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June 1, 2012
Associated PressU.S. employers created only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent, up from
8.1 percent in April, the first increase in 11 months.
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May 18, 2012
Scott OlsonIndiana’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.9 percent in April, falling below 8 percent for the first time since November 2008.
The rate has dropped for five straight months.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.