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Unemployment: How Long Can This Go On?
With Fed Chief Ben Bernanke warning about the dangers of long-term unemployment, 13 Senate Republicans joined Democrats to support a jobs bill worth $35 billion. How does it look to small business and unemployed people themselves? Should the government spend even more to create jobs or get out of the way of the private sector? Also, New York's troubled politics, and from Canada to Russia, the Winter Olympics and the environment.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWith Fed Chief Ben Bernanke warning about the dangers of long-term unemployment, 13 Senate Republicans joined Democrats to support a jobs bill worth $35 billion. How does it look to small business and unemployed people themselves? Should the government spend even more to create jobs or get out of the way of the private sector? Also, New York's troubled politics, and this year’s Vancouver Winter Olympics are the first be declared “carbon neutral.” But in planning for Sochi four years from now, Russia is not “going Green.”
Banner image: Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on February 25, 2010
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3 storiesNew York’s Troubled Politics
David Paterson became Governor of New York two years ago when Eliot Spitzer resigned because he consorted with prostitutes.
Read the story8 minUnemployment: How Long Can This Go On?
The Senate's newest member, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, was one of 13 Republicans who voted this week in support of a jobs bill, which provides $35 billion for highways, mass transit and tax credits for employers who hire new workers.
Read the story37 minWill Russia Produce a Green (and Gold) Olympics?
As President of Russia, one of Vladimir Putin's crowning achievements was securing the Winter Olympic Games for 2014 . As Prime Minister, he's facing criticism.
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