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Latest Unemployment Numbers Provide Grim Job Creation News American employment growth almost came to a halt in June, with just 18,000 new jobs created after economists forecast 105,000. Affirming that we'd created two million private-sector jobs over the past 16 months, President Obama responded to the anemic jobs report by cautioning that the recession had cost us more than eight million.
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National Security: An Adult in the Room America’s mainstream media are obsessed with President Trump’s off-hand policymaking in military and foreign affairs. But his mistakes don’t justify the unquestioned authority given the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI.
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Who are the political players in the LA teachers strike? Thousands of LA public school teachers are going to be back out on the picket lines for a second day. They walked off the job Monday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the LA Unified School District, despite months of negotiations.