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Formula shows why it's so hard to cut jobless rate (yahoo.com)
The economy's 5.7 percent growth last quarter -- the fastest pace since 2003 -- was a step toward shrinking the nation's 10 percent...


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Tag: Labor, Business_Finance, Economic growth, Gross domestic product, Okun's law, Recessions, Unemployment, Macroeconomics, Economics, Phillips curve, Late 2000s recession in Europe,
Organization: US Federal Reserve, National Association for Business Economics, International Monetary Fund, Democratic Party,
PoliticalEvent: Congressional elections,
Company: Capital IQ, Yahoo!, Commodity Systems Inc., John Hancock, Topics Yahoo! Finance Worldwide,
Country: United States,
Person: Barack Obama, Arthur Okun, Bill Cheney, Mark Zandi,
City: WASHINGTON,
IndustryTerm: Gross domestic product,
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carlos said:
There are so many factors that go into lowering the unemployment rate that it is very difficult to be even close to what works for sure. Most of the growth recently has been in government and services and they are paid for by taxes, more debt or the production core of our economy. Real unemployment lowering will come when we improve production.
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