Prerecession Level News Today

>> the american economy has created in the private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row. thats nearly three million new jobs in all. more than half a million over the last four months. so we need to keep that growth going. >> there are some new signs of life in the u.s. job market. with a strong showing in november that caught a lot of the analysts by surprise. the labor department says employers added 120,000 jobs helping push down the unemployment rate from 9% in october to 8....

pain of the unemployed temporarily. some will put people back to work. but they do not make for a complete solution. yet its a start. as long as congress passes the bill. while the politicians bicker, many americans have no place to live. as many as 1 million people may have become homeless during the recent recession. with some living in tent cities like this one near st. petersburg, florida. these are people who used to have solid, middle-class jobs. whats more, almost half of americ...