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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (79534)	2/17/2010 3:28:49 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224751

Perhaps the most devastating part of the forecast was reserved for the labor markets, which participants said “would improve only slowly over the next several years” with projections for the average unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2010 to be between 9.5% and 9.7% -- exactly where it was in January and only a little below the levels late last year. And, the unemployment rate, they said, would decline only about 2½ percentage points by the end of 2012 and “would still be well above its longer-run sustainable rate.”