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Why Companies Are Willing To Let Trump Take Credit For Previously-Planned Job Creation
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 5:16pm | 842Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Thursday it plans to create 100,000 new jobs in the next 18 months. Despite no indication from Amazon that the decision had anything to do with his proposed policies, President-elect Donald Trump has taken credit for the announcement. “The...
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How Bad Was U.S. Jobs Data? One Of The Worst In More Than 5 Years
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 1:34pm | 360Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter within minutes of Friday's job reports that showed the U.S. economy added 38,000 jobs. "Terrible jobs report just reported. Only 38,000 jobs added. Bombshell!" Taking politics out of the equation, the question many are...
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Dow, S&P 500 Close At Record Highs
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 6:04pm | 859U.S. stocks were mostly higher after Republicans took control of the Senate after Tuesday's elections as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX: .DJI) and S&P 500 (INDEXSP: .INX) both closed at historical all-time highs. "Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign; I'm...
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L. Brooks Patterson: Oakland County Is A 'Job Creating Juggernaut'
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 2:44pm | 995Oakland County is located just to the northwest of Wayne County, home of Detroit in Southeastern Michigan. As the city of Detroit goes through the largest city bankruptcy in U.S. history, Oakland County is flourishing, attracting more residents and adapting to the modern economy. Bloomberg...
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Proof the Government DOES NOT Create Jobs!?
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 3:13pm | 168In fact, it actually kills them – 70,000 applicants at a time. During a four-day server outage last week, the government job website USAJobs.gov lost 70,000 applications. That's according to the Federal Times (via Gizmodo), which reports that many job seekers couldn't even submit a new application...