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...White House hopes the latest bad economic news--a surge in jobless claims and more indications of businesses cutting back--will give a boost to Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal, which the Senate voted to slice in half two weeks ago. Asked if the President still hoped to get his tax cut passed in full, a senior Administration official replied confidently, "Fifty miles to Baghdad." Translation: After the war, the chances could improve. In private, though, Administration officials say they will take the largest number they can get and declare victory. As a Bush aide points out with...
...Fielding. When James was in college, he served as Stevie's Big Brother, then sought him out after Hoop Dreams' release. What he found, living in a bleak Illinois hamlet, was a human being about as messed up as it is possible to be. In his 20s, Stevie is jobless, feckless and has a rap sheet. He is also fat, slovenly and utterly unable to explain himself to himself or anyone else. Fairly early in the film he is jailed for sexually abusing his young niece, and though he denies it, everyone we see--even the anguished James--eventually comes...
...through in the past three years, from the dot-com bubble to 9/11 to the persistent disappointment of a 2002 spent waiting for a recovery that still hasn?t come. In that context, a broad, job-ful recovery by year?s end would be rather impressive, considering the last, jobless one (which surrounded the last Gulf War) took four years to flower. But it still pays to remember that even if the end of the war is the beginning of the recovery, this economy will still have a long...
...decade-long Republican fixation on balanced budgets as well as the Clinton Administration's bedrock belief that big deficits lead to higher interest rates and hurt long-term growth. And in focusing on economic expansion in 2004 rather than short-term stimulus now, Bush may imperil an already jobless recovery...
...Estimated number of jobless workers whose unemployment benefits will be extended for 13 weeks under legislation enacted by the new Republican-controlled Congress...