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Friday, October 05, 2012  US unemployment rate falls to 7.8 pct., lowest since 2009, giving Obama a potential boost

Wednesday, October 19, 2011  First Social Security increase since 2009 coming next year; size announced Wednesday

Monday, April 04, 2011  French officials say that specialists could start pulling up bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane from the Atlantic Ocean floor within a month.

Thursday, January 13, 2011  Former House Republican leader Tom DeLay says his conviction on money laundering charges was a politically-inspired case brought by prosecutors in "the most liberal county" in Texas.

Monday, January 03, 2011  According to the Kids Count 2009: Trends in the Well Being of Iowa Children survey, Davis, Jefferson, Wapello and Van Buren Counties continue to have large numbers of children living in poverty.

Monday, October 11, 2010  The jobs crisis has brought an unwelcome discovery for many unemployed Americans: Job openings in their old fields exist. Yet they no longer qualify for them.

Thursday, October 07, 2010  A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison.

Thursday, October 07, 2010  After the recession began in 2007, the suburbs continued to post larger increases in the number of poor — adding 1.8 million, compared to 1.4 million in the cities.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010  The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it.

Monday, October 04, 2010  Though most economists think it helped avert a second Depression, the $700 billion program was as despised as any in U.S. history.

Friday, October 01, 2010  President Barack Obama's $800 billion-plus economic stimulus law may not be earning good grades with the public, but the White House claims it's on track to produce the promised 3.5 million jobs.

Friday, August 27, 2010  The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century.

Monday, August 16, 2010  Thousands of current and former Air Force members remain eligible to receive $500 in retroactive special pay for each month they were affected by stop loss. Airmen have until Oct. 21 to apply through the Air Force Personnel Center here.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010  The Department of Natural Resources has awarded more than $1.46 million in grants for engineering studies to 50 public water supply systems throughout the state.

Friday, June 18, 2010  Two men are now facing murder charges stemming from a death in 2009.