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...August monthly unemployment rate practically exploded to 4.9 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday, as all non-farm employers cut 113,000 jobs from their payrolls for the month. Manufacturing, as usual, led the way with 141,000 job cuts all by itself, bring the sector?s grim total to the 1 million mark over the past 12 months. And Wall Street, already in its traditional-of-late Friday short-selling mode, was clearly not in any condition to hear more scary numbers: Both the Dow and NASDAQ sold on the pre-bell news and didn?t slow down until...
...hard-liners in the government who would like to try and resolve this by force. It's clear they're unlikely to succeed, and you just have to look at how they managed over the past six months to see that. It may have been a recognition of the grim alternatives that actually persuaded many of the hard-liners to vote for the deal today...
...Some grim numbers...
...Just in time for Labor Day, the AFL-CIO has released a new report on job satisfaction and the results paint a pretty grim picture for employers. According to "Workers? Rights in America: What Workers Think About Their Jobs and Employers," while 54 percent of U.S. workers rate their own financial situation as "good" or "excellent," 68 percent of those surveyed believe workers? rights need "much more" or "somewhat more" protection. Asked to rate their own work experiences, employees handed out more bad news for company brass: Two-thirds of workers have "just some" or "not much" trust that employers...
...Given the grim statistics and unpredictability facing cancer patients, of course, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to establish a direct cause and effect relationship between Courtney?s alleged criminal activity and a specific death. But, says Dr. Joan Bull, professor and director of medical oncology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, it should not be difficult to show that Courtney inflicted harm: "These patients were going through their therapy, assuming they were getting the right dose, and all the time they weren?t getting an anti-tumor response...