The Minnesota Independent is hiring one half-time reporter/blogger.
The reporter will help in coverage of the Minnesota Legislature, Minnesota aspects of the 2012 presidential race, local and statewide politics and policy, and a range of other issues important to Minnesotans.
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Yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee — the team of economists that determines whether the economy is contracting (in a recession) or expanding — announced that the recession officially ended in June 2009.
That means little to the 14.9 million Americans out of work, of More…
This morning, the Conference Board, a nonprofit economic research group, said that its leading economic index — a measure of how business might act in the coming months, based on data like consumer expectations, stock prices and hours worked — increased just 0.1 percent between June and July. That More…
Today, two companies — ADP, a payroll processor, and Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement consultancy — both reported employment numbers that reinforce that the recovery is happening, but jobs are coming back slowly.
Here’s the topline figures from Challenger:
After a 61 percent increase in March, the number
You can give me one second of your time, right? There’s more election blogging on the way, and this is a bit of good news.
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