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Obama Touts Auto Bailout, but Labor Numbers Are a Concern
The Labor Department said today that unemployment rose a tenth of a point last month from 9- to 9.1 percent. Some 232,000 new jobs had been predicted, but only 54,000 materialized. Meanwhile, President Obama went to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio today to remind voters the automobile bailout saved 1.5 million jobs.
The Labor Department said today that unemployment rose a tenth of a point last month from 9- to 9.1 percent. Some 232,000 new jobs had been predicted, but only 54,000 materialized. Meanwhile, President Obama went to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio today to remind voters the automobile bailout saved 1.5 million jobs. Binyamin Appelbaum is a domestic correspondent for the New York Times.
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