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Miss the press conference?

You can listen to President Obama’s press conference on health care reform from last night in its entirety at PRX. And Marketplace’s Tamara Keith gives an <a href="overview and analysis of the q&a session.

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“Less bad” or a true sign of recovery?

Jobless rates are still rising, with states like Michigan and California reporting ranks of the unemployed exceeding ten percent for the first time since World War II. So how could things actually be slowly improving? Looking at the NPR unemployment map, which organizes the May numbers released today state-by-state, the picture doesn’t look good. The [...]

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