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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
June Job Creation at 80,000; Rate Holds Steady at 8.2% — The U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, reflecting continued slow growth in the economy with the presidential election just four months away.
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Associated Press:
US economy added 80,000 jobs in June; unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2 percent — WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is still struggling three years after the recession ended.
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
June jobs swoon: America's labor market depression continues — This was not the employment report either the American worker or the Obama campaign wanted to see right now. The Labor Department said the U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, less than the 90,000 economists had been forecasting.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
June Jobs Report Brings Another Round Of Disappointment — Despite some signs I noted yesterday that suggested that the June jobs report might not be as disappointing as some feared, the slowing trend that we saw starting to develop in March, which continued into April, and got even worse in May, were still there in June.
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
WH: at least the economy is still growing — The White House took an optimistic view of the June jobs report on Friday, saying that overall unemployment is down nearly one percentage point over the past year. — “The economy has now added private sector jobs for 28 straight months …
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Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
Jobs Report, First Impressions — Payrolls grew by 80,000 last month and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2% in a jobs report that confirms the slower trend in employment gains that showed up a few months ago. — In order to get a better feel for the underlying trend, it's useful to average across a few months.
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
June Employment Report: 80,000 Jobs, 8.2% Unemployment Rate
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Eric Platt / Business Insider:
JUNE JOBS REPORT MISSES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT 8.2%
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Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Payrolls In U.S. Rose 80,000 In June; Jobless Rate 8.2%
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
American Bridge hits Mitt's jobs rhetoric — Turns out it's not just health care where President Barack Obama sounds a lot like Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. — Ahead of the June unemployment numbers release this morning, the Democratic reserach group American Bridge is circulating video …
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Mitt Romney sets GOP fund-raising record
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama hits Romney: ‘Principles matter’
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Journal Critique of Romney Shows Murdoch Doubt on Candidacy
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney to bolster communications team amid conservative tempest
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Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
Ohioan to Obama: Let's arm-wrestle for vote — A voter in Amherst, Ohio, offered to arm-wrestle President Obama in exchange for his vote. — The president responded he'd prefer a basketball game, according to a White House pool report. — Obama was in Ohio wrapping up day one of a two-day bus tour …
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BuzzFeed:
Obama: Turn Off Fox News — Obama suggests patron ask bar owner to switch off the conservative-leaning cable network. — Image by KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters — PARMA, Ohio — At an unscheduled stop at Ziggy's Pub and Restaurant, an Amherst, Ohio bar, President Barack Obama suggested …
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Hunter Walker / Politicker:
President Obama Advised Patrons to Turn Off Fox News in Ohio Pub
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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Morgan Freeman: Obama Isn't America's First Black President — President Barack Obama told his compelling life story during the campaign leading up to his election in 2008. Upon his inauguration, many Americans took pride in their country having elected their first black president …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Three Makes A Trend … - If Paul Clement Is So Good, How Did He Lose the Term's Two Biggest Supreme Court Cases?
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Politico:
Sobbing woman thanks Obama for health care law — SANDUSKY, Ohio — An emotional Ohio voter personally thanked President Obama for passing a health care overhaul, relating the story of her late sister's battle with cancer. — After Obama's speech in Sandusky, he encountered a sobbing Stephanie Miller …
Brandon Blackwell / Plain Dealer:
Clash breaks out at GOP rally supporting Mitt Romney in Parma — PARMA, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sent two GOP heavyweights to northern Ohio Thursday to beat President Barack Obama's similar bus tour to the punch. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Minnesota …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP releases ‘Repeal of Obamacare Act’ — House Republicans late Thursday released their proposal to repeal the 2010 healthcare law, arguing that it has increased healthcare costs, puts Americans at risk of losing coverage and is dragging down the economy. — The Repeal of Obamacare Act …
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Senior Syrian military officer defects — ANTAKYA, Turkey — A powerful military officer and longtime close associate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has defected and was on his way to Paris, where foreign ministers from Friends of Syria countries are meeting, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed Friday.
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Robert Scheer / The Huffington Post:
Crime of the Century — Forget Bernie Madoff and Enron's Ken Lay — they were mere amateurs in financial crime. The current Libor interest rate scandal, involving hundreds of trillions in international derivatives trade, shows how the really big boys play.
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