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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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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.


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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The New Republic, FiveThirtyEight, The Glittering Eye, Washington Monthly and Felix Salmon


10 reasons why jobs market even worse than weak June employment report — Nonfarm payrolls rose by just 80,000 in June, slightly worse than expected and the third straight month of sub-100,000 job growth. The jobless rate held at 8.2%. The employment report was disappointing.
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Patterico's Pontifications


JUNE JOBS REPORT MISSES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT 8.2%
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White House.gov Blog, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The Rightnewz, Shot in the Dark, Wake up America and Brad DeLong

June Employment Report: 80,000 Jobs, 8.2% Unemployment Rate
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BBC, msnbc.com, Firedoglake and Business Insider

WH: at least the economy is still growing
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Weasel Zippers and Hot Air

US economy added 80,000 jobs in June; unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2 percent
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Washington Post, Real Time Economics, business.time.com, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative

Jobs Report, First Impressions
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BuzzFeed and Taegan Goddard's …

Jobs Report Revives Fears for Recovery
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Washington Wire, MarketBeat and Real Time Economics

Payrolls In U.S. Rose 80,000 In June; Jobless Rate 8.2%
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International Liberty, Instapundit, Guardian, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and aflcio.org


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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Washington Wire
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Obama hits Romney: ‘Principles matter’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Mitt's Million-Dollar Question: What's Romney Really Worth?
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Politico, ABCNEWS and The Reaction

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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CNN, Politico, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
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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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The Raw Story, Wonkette, NewsBusters.org, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative and TheBlaze.com

Romney-Rice? — Erin McPike's “close examination of the [Romney] campaign's activity” at RealClearPolitics suggests four leading contenders for Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick—former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, Ohio senator Rob Portman, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal.
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National Review and Real Clear Politics
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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 …

New Leak Explains What Chief Justice Roberts Was Really Thinking in Health Care Cases (Although the Leak is Poorly Sourced) — A fascinating new leak from deep inside the Supreme Court has just surfaced on what Roberts was thinking when he switched his vote in the health care cases.
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PrawfsBlawg
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The Unprecedented Uniqueness of Chief Justice Roberts Opinion
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Washington Examiner and protein wisdom

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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The rotten heart of finance
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Felix Salmon, naked capitalism, Mother Jones and FT Alphaville


Rove-Backed Super PAC $25M Ad Buy Attacks Obama — Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images — The Karl Rove backed GOP super PAC Crossroads GPS announced Friday a new $25 million ad buy in nine battleground states launching next week. — The new ad titled “Excuses” will run in Colorado …
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Crossroads GPS to spend $25M hitting Obama on jobs, debt
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CNN and Wake up America


Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet … Morgan Freeman is an Oscar-winning actor, philanthropist and recent recipient of the Lincoln Medal of Honor. — Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman joined Tell Me More host Michel Martin to discuss his new movie, The Magic of Belle Isle.
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Outside the Beltway, theGrio and New York Magazine
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Morgan Freeman: Obama Isn't America's First Black President
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Scared Monkeys, NewsBusters.org, Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll and Riehl World View


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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New York Magazine and FT Alphaville


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 …


‘No Child’ Law Whittled Down by White House — In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified.
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Mother Jones, Eduwonk, The Heritage Foundation, Politico and Perdido Street School

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 …