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...economic outlook is the dark cloud of jobs. With unemployment at 9.7%, underemployment (which includes those working part-time and those who have given up looking for work) at 16.8% and consumer confidence taking an unexpected 10-point drop in February, Americans are still feverishly chasing bargains. Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com, believes unemployment will hit 10.3% before peaking later this year...
Bryan Eshelman, a managing director in the retail practice at AlixPartners, a global business advisory firm, says the retail recovery has a long road ahead. "We're still about $25 billion [in retailer sales] below the autumn 2007 peak on a seasonally adjusted basis," he says...
...Access is only one factor," cautions Maureen Corry, executive director of Childbirth Connection, a research and advocacy organization that recently convened more than 100 stakeholders, including members of the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists and the NIH, in a large symposium on transforming maternity care. "We need to make sure that we reduce the overuse of interventions that are not always necessary, like C-sections, and increase access to the care that we know is good for mothers and babies, like labor support...
Some three million pounds of explosives are detonated each day in West Virginia for coal mining, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and the process shears up to 800 feet of elevation off each mountain peak, says Margaret Palmer, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science. The black scars run visibly up the spine of the central Appalachians. And the explosions don't sound lightly: "When they put these blasts off, it's horrendous," says Maria Gunnoe, 41, of the community advocacy group Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, who lives in Bob White, W. Va., 12 miles...
...mining industry and a ban on mountaintop mining. Recently, representatives of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining visited Appalachia to study the effects in the area. Such mining is devastating the environment, "polluting our streams, poisoning our air and destroying our culture and heritage," says Judy Bonds, co-director of the West Virginia-based Coal River Mountain Watch...