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Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

US economy souring, so what's a Democrat to do?

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months before the elections, the uneven economic recovery is sputtering and job growth is anemic. Stock prices are down to 2011 levels and news on the European debt front is menacing....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney campaign criticizes Obama's experience

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A weak labor market provided energy Sunday for criticism of President Barack Obama, with the campaign of presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney contending that the president's lack of executive leadership experience undermines his policies....

Jobless rate now a leading political indicator

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Every four weeks between now and November, a single number issued from a spare, windowless room in the heart of the federal bureaucracy will set the battle lines for the presidential election....

Activists jab Obama and Romney on economy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Separated at rival conferences by 1,000 miles and a world of political ideology, liberal and conservative activists are finding themselves united by a deep disappointment with the nation's economy....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

48 Pa. transit workers still on job after jackpot

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Four dozen Philadelphia transit agency workers who won a $172 million Powerball drawing are all still working and don't intend to change much about their lives despite becoming millionaires....
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Romney: Obama denying middle class a 'fair shot'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney launched a multistate bus tour through small-town America on Friday, charging that President Barack Obama hasn't given the middle class "a fair shot."...

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

US, China forge tentative deal on Chinese activist

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 12:54
BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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