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Who's Opposed to Healthcare Reform?
With Congress, and now the Senate, at home for the August recess, what's the status of healthcare reform? Why is it being proposed in the first place? Why are angry protesters gathered around the country, before President Obama has even signed on to a final proposal? Also, the July jobs report may signal a new direction, and international politics and yesterday's outage at Twitter.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWith Congress, and now the Senate, at home for the August recess, what's the status of healthcare reform? Why is it being proposed in the first place? Why are angry protesters gathered around the country, before President Obama has even signed on to a final proposal? Also, the July jobs report may signal a new direction, and yesterday's Twitter outage and the lessons for cybersecurity.
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3 storiesJuly Jobs Report May Signal a New Direction
Some 247,000 Americans lost their jobs last month, but that's better than had been expected, and the unemployment rate actually declined by one tenth of a point, down to 9.4 percent. President Obama says, " The worst is behind us ." Brian Blackstone is economics correspondent for Dow Jones .
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Tampa, St. Louis, Houston, Austin, Denver and Milan, Michigan are just some of the cities to see rowdy protests in the past few hours. White House aides told Senators on their way home for the August recess, "If you get hit, punch back twice as hard."
Read the story36 minTwitter Outage Has Social Network Users Atwitter
The micro-blogging site Twitter was out of business for most of yesterday and other sites were affected as well. One person was responsible for yesterday's outage, a blogger who favors the nation of Georgia and who was the subject of a denial of service attack that caused problems elsewhere on the Internet.
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