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Our own unemployment metric, the Solman Scale, found unemployment ticked down slightly to 15.6 percent. Photo courtesy of John Moore/Getty Images. Not yeah! Not feh! But, as has been the usual response to most monthly jobs reports since the recovery began four years ag stanley cup o, more like meh.I ;m collecting non-inspiring adjectives if anyone has others. Soft, tepid, meh. Others RT @djheakin: This is an extremely flat report鈥?Neil Irwin @Neil_Irwin October 22, 2013That one way to express the sentiment most frequently heard today about the September numbers, stanley cup 18 days delayed due to the partial government shutdown.Yes, unemployment is down a tad, though I continue to see evidence that it because of those 10,000 baby boomers a day hitting retirement age, and most of them, if not so many as in the past, calling it quits. The evidence is a slightly shrinking labor force, even as the population grows. Yes, 148,000 jobs were created, if we ;re to believe this month numbers and yes, the summer jobs total was revised upward by 9,00 stanley cup 0.But as the Atlanta Federal Reserve glum calculator reveals, to achieve the full employment rate of 4 percent last seen under President Bill Clinton, the economy would need to add 143,000 jobs a month for more than a dozen years. Non-stop.Yes, our own all-inclusive reckoning of under- and unemployment, U-7, reported here every month, ticked down to 15.6 percent from 15.7 percent. Qxnt Gwen s Take: Political High Wire Acts
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction WMD and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent insurgency arose, the war lost public support. Saddam was captured, tried, and hanged and democratic elections were held.In the years since, there have been over 4,700 U.S. and allied troop deaths, and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Meanwhile, questions linger over Iraqs fractious political situation.March 20, 2003President George W. Bush announces that U.S. forces have begun a military operation into Iraq. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign, the president says. That initial effort to decapitate Iraq stanley cup s leadership with air strikes fails, clearing the way for a ground invasion.April 9, 2003U.S., British, and other coalition forces quickly overwhelm the Iraqi Army, though elements loyal to Saddam who will form the core of a postwar insurgency fight on. Three weeks after the invasion, Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam in Baghdads Firdos Square.Iraqi citizens hit a pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in the town of Karbala, on the 18th day of the war in Iraq, 2003. Photo by Peter Andrews PA/CMC/REUTERSMay 1, 2003President Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq from the de stanley cup ck of the aircraft stanley cup carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Lawlessness and some skirmishing in the country are written |
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