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Commentary › 10% jobless is Obama's new world

For months he had warned it was coming but that did not ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when U.S. unemployment topped 10%.… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Sat, Nov 07 2009

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