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Friday, August 3, 2012

Economy Better than expected jobs report for July

Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:02 AM

The U.S. economy added 163,000 jobs in July, better than expected, but the unemployment rate still rose a tick, to 8.3 percent.

I'll play Krugman: Imagine how things would have been without the too-small, Republican-curtailed stimulus. Subtract a horde of auto workers, for starters.

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