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Initial jobless claims stuck above 400,000 for 11th week

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims remained above the 400,000 mark for the 11th consecutive week and moved up slightly by 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 for the week ending June 18. It was another sign that the jobs sector has not begun a recovery [...]

Mexico suffers bad publicity from war with drug cartels

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Mexico’s concern about a bad image internationally from its war with drug cartels rose again this week amid negative publicity in the United States. Officials from the industry that brings about 22.5 million tourists to Mexico each year accused the United States [...]

How Much Savings Do You Need for The Future?

According to the 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute in Washington, DC, a majority of workers have not tried to do a calculation. View full post on All Stories

Fed chair: Unemployment rate will take years to drop, deficit ‘unsustainable’

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke says the unemployment rate in the United States will not drop to pre-financial crisis levels for a number of years. Bernanke made that statement Thursday in answer to questions about the economy from the Congressional Committee on the [...]

Fed Chair tells Senate committee deficit plan will add jobs

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday called on the Senate Budget Committee to come up with a deficit reduction plan, saying he expected moderately more economic recovery in 2011 than in 2010, but not at a rate sufficient to make much of [...]

Unemployment Rate Rises To 9.8%, 15.1 Million Americans Jobless

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Jobs recovery in the United States stalled in November with unemployment rising to 9.8 percent from 9.6 percent in October while the economy created only 39,000 jobs, Labor Department officials said Friday in the monthly report. That jump in the unemployment rate came [...]

New Senior Living Apartments Break Old Trends

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Ingleside at Rock Creek, an upscale continuing care retirement community in the Northwest neighborhood of Washington, DC, announced that construction will begin on 15 new luxury independent living apartments on November 29, 2010. The expansion project is exp View full post on All Stories

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