Bush Touts Unemployment Rate Drop
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President Bush says recent statistics showing a slight drop in the US unemployment rate show America&#39;s economy is strong and growing stronger.
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The Bush administration, after being ridiculed by Democrats for an overly optimistic jobs forecast this year, on Friday significantly reduced its forecast for new jobs that will be created in 2005.
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry on Friday seized on a Labor Department report showing the US expanded payrolls by 144,000 and lowered the unemployment level to 5.4 percent
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President Bush on Friday called for about $145 billion worth of tax  relief to stimulate a sagging economy and fend off a possible  recession
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President Bush had been hoping to wave a glowing September jobs report in John Kerry&#39;s face for the rest of the presidential campaign.
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US president George W. Bush could be well positioned to win the November election if the country&#39;s jobless rate holds at or below its current level, a new study suggested Monday.
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New jobless figures will show a fall in unemployment rate for the first time in months, hints Tony Blair.
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President Bushâs final State of the Union address will focus on the economy, as Mr. Bush himself suggested Friday during a short preview of the speech at a Congressional Republican retreat.
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President Bush said on Saturday his tax cuts were working to lift growth but a senior aide acknowledged that the economy hit a "soft patch" over the last six or eight weeks.
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Britain&#39;s unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 4.7 percent in the latest quarter, according to official data released Wednesday.
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President George W. Bush said on Friday the U.S. economy was on a solid footing despite a weak December employment report, a slumping housing market and near record oil prices.
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Unemployment declined in September in eight of 10 states hotly contested in the presidential race - including Ohio, where job losses and a weak economy have boosted Democrat John Kerry&#39;s election hopes.
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US President George W. Bush declared that anemic job creation in July showed that there is "more to do" to help the US economy and urged voters to give him a second four-year term.
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President George W. Bush declared himself pleased on Friday with U.S. economic progress despite a Labor Department report that said U.S. employers added only 51,000 jobs in September.
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com Daily Report. The nation&#39;s unemployment rate dropped by 0.1 percentage point to 5.4 percent in November, according to the report Friday by the US Labor Department&#39;s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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WASHINGTON Dec 30, 2004 - The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits dropped last week, a hopeful sign that the recovery in the jobs market is moving ahead.
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President Bush&#39;s re-election hopes suffered a blow yesterday with news that the economy created just 96,000 new jobs in September, considerably fewer than expected.