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Arab News
| 10 months ago
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised $106.1 million in June, far surpassing President Barack Obama's $71 million haul in the record-setting money race leading to the Nov. 6 election. Romney's June fundraising, announced by the...
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The Hutchinson News
| 10 months ago
A Wall Street Journal analysis of the June unemployment figures offers little comfort, nor does it produce confidence that the economy will improve before the election. "The U.S. unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent in June," the Journal...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama on Monday called on Congress to approve a one year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 per year, a proposal that has been rejected by congressional Republicans and likely Republican Party...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney 's campaign is preparing to push back on attacks about his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital by dropping the L-bomb, Buzzfeed reported Monday...It will also circulate a document to reporters with what it says are presidential...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama has drawn sharp election battle lines between himself and rival Republicans by pressing Congress to maintain tax breaks for most US families but end them for the wealthy. "WE don't need more top-down economics...I just believe...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
And the contrast between George Romney and his son Mitt a contrast both in their business careers and in their willingness to come clean about their financial affairs dramatically illustrates how America has changed. Right now there's a lot of buzz...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Obama was joined on stage by people who would benefit from the tax cut...President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to renew Bush-era tax cuts for taxpayers earning $250,000 or less for one more year. Obama, surrounded by middle-class families...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
President Obama called on Congress Monday to extend Bush-era tax cuts for middle-class families making less than $250,000 a year, but not for the wealthiest Americans --pitting himself against Republicans who would like the extension to apply to...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Obama said his proposal would cut taxes on 98% of all American workers and 97% of small business owners, who Republicans argue create most of the new jobs in the economy. "So this isn't about tax job creators, this is about helping job creators," he...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama , eager to shift election-year attention away from the nation's lackluster jobs market, called on Congress Monday to extend tax cuts for only low and middle income earners while allowing taxes to increase for families that make...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
As the countdown to the convention begins and the veepstakes heats up, the speculation about who Mitt Romney will name as his running mate has shifted from not just who, but when. The Post's Philip Rucker had a rundown yesterday of the presumptive...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
On Friday, we presented readers with what we called the most important chart of the 2012 election based on newly reported unemployment stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Three days later, we're able to update the second most important chart...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign increased its fundraising lead over President Barack Obama in June, official numbers released on Monday show. Mr Romney and the Republicans raised $106m (£68m) , $35m more than Mr Obama and the Democrats, who raised $71m. Both...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Good morning and welcome to today's live politics coverage. Here's Ryan Devereaux with a round-up of the latest developments. President Barack Obama will call on Congress to extend tax cuts for the middle class today, in an attempt to shift the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney pulled in a blockbuster fundraising haul in June, collecting $106.1 million for his campaign and the Republican party, his campaign announced today. The total marks Romney's best fundraising month yet, as the former Massachusetts governor...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
FoxNews.com "I've never known of a Swiss bank account to build an American bridge, a Swiss bank account to create American jobs, or Swiss bank accounts to rebuild the levees to protect the people of New Orleans. That's not an economic strategy for...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign announced Monday that it raised more than $106 million in June, the biggest fundraising month of the presidential campaign to date. The Fix and others reported last week that the campaign raised at least $100...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
The campaign released a new video that slams Romney for alleged reliance on tax havens, signaling a strong push to capitalize politically on a Vanity Fair magazine story about Romney's holdings outside the U.S. Vanity Fair last week reported on a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Another disappointing jobs report landing in a largely status-quo presidential race had Democrats and Republicans returning to their respective rhetorical corners, relying on well-worn talking points as both candidates prepared to return to the...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney is the ObamaCare daddy, Durbin, the No...He gave birth to this baby up in Massachusetts, and now he doesn't recognize it, and can't pick out any strains in the hereditary chain there that look like anything he did in Massachusetts.
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Priebus said that President Obama had not only failed to turn the economy around but also, after promising to unite the country, turned out to be the most divisive president in history. He cast the 2012 election in stark...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
I think a better use of my time is to criticize the guys we are running against, McConnell said on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked about the Romney campaign's performance, in particular, their response to the Supreme Court ruling upholding...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Maybe, and no, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) told reporters for the umpteenth time Saturday after he showed up for a Republican fundraiser in the same state as Mitt Romney , who is said to be considering him as a vice presidential nominee. As he has done...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney said he has a plan that "calls for action that will get America working again," in the wake of the June unemployment report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday unemployment in June was 8.2 percent, making June the 41st...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Obama's weekly address President Barack Obama attempted to turn the heat back on Mitt Romney and Congress on Saturday as he sought to divert attention away from the third consecutive month of lacklustre jobs reports. In his weekly address to the...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The comment came after new Labor Department statistics showed that the June jobless rate was unchanged from May at 8.2 percent, with 12.7 million people in the ranks of the unemployed. The United States added only 80,000 jobs in June, the third month...
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The Denver Post
| 11 months ago
From April through June, the economy produced an average of 75,000 jobs a month, the weakest three months since August through October 2010. The unemployment rate stayed at 8.2 percent a recession-level figure, even though the Great Recession has...
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Taiwan News
| 11 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Associated Press 2012-07-07 08:04 AM Another dose of bad economic news threatened President Barack Obama 's chance for re-election and offered Republican challenger Mitt Romney fresh...
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The Washington Times
| 11 months ago
People say more domestic drilling would lower the price of gas. The United States produces less than half of the oil we use domestically; the rest comes from other countries. If we produced more, the price would go down, or so it's said...If only...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Surprise fall in Canada's unemployment rate in June The proportion of Canadians out of work fell slightly to 7.2% in June In Canada, unemployment fell slightly from 7.3% to 7.2% in June and firms hired an extra 7,300 staff according to official data.
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KSBY
| 11 months ago
As Mitt Romney sees it, President Barack Obama is pushing economic ideas that have been tried and have failed. But Obama says the same thing about Romney, as each one promises to revive the economy in the aftermath of today's jobs report. It shows...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Obama, speaking during a two-day campaign swing via bus through the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, acknowledged that the economy still had a ways to go and was not going to fully recover overnight. I want to get back to a time when middle-...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Obama's political team long has played down the significance of the Labor Department's monthly report and did so again on Friday. They contend that Americans are not, and should not be, fixated on the current unemployment rate or monthly statistics.
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
Republican strategists cautioned that to stay on the offensive, the Romney campaign needs to do a better job defining the debate rather than reacting to issues as they come along. Romney, who has been on vacation all week in New Hampshire , wasted no...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
For Mitt Romney, it interrupts cries from conservatives to shake up his floundering campaign...The June unemployment report came in Friday below expectations, with only a net 80,000 jobs created and unemployment stuck at the high rate of 8.2 percent.
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Stock prices dropped sharply at the opening bell on the report that the economy created 80,000 jobs in June , well below the number needed to bring down the 8.2% unemployment rate. At a campaign event in Poland, Ohio, Obama said the job growth --...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
Canadian economy created more net new jobs than expected in June for the fourth straight month, and the unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly as fewer people looked for work. All the job gains were full-time positions and concentrated in the public...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Canada's unemployment rate inched down to 7.2 per cent in June as employers added 7,300 new jobs, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The reporting agency said the jobless rate fell from 7.3 per cent in the previous month to 7.2 per cent in June as...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama accused Republican rival Mitt Romney of kowtowing to conservatives when he changed his position on what to call the healthcare reform provision that requires people to buy insurance. Obama said Romney had defended the "...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney , amid one of his roughest stretches of the campaign since clinching the Republican nomination, was saved by the bell -- the June jobs report -- Friday. Returning to the issue seen as his best argument in the presidential election, Romney...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney slammed President Obama for another disappointing jobs report Friday blaming the incumbent's policies for the misery in America today. The Labor Department revealed that the national unemployment rate held steady at 8.2% in June, a third...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
One of the things that you learn as president is that what you say matters and your principles matter," Obama told a local Cincinnati NBC affiliate, according to excerpts provided by his campaign. "And sometimes, you've got to fight for things that...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
N.H. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says the nation's ongoing sluggish job growth is unacceptable and his policies would work better than President Barack Obama 's. Romney said Friday's report that only 80,000 jobs were created in...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Economy Retail Still, while the June employment increase was fuelled by an impressive 29,000 new full-time positions, much of that hiring was in public-sector jobs in areas like education and health care. World Markets, pointed out in a note to...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images 8.12am: The New York Times's statistical blogger Nate Silver has an interesting thought about how the expectations for today's jobs report will affect the political climate. "It seems as though we're at something of an...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The three summers of President Obama 's first term in office have been decidedly unkind to him on the economic front, a trend that puts even more importance on this morning's June jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...President Barack...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Hiring likely picked up slightly in June after sputtering in April and May. But the gains aren't expected to be enough to lower the unemployment rate. Analysts forecast that the economy gained only 90,000 jobs last month, according to a survey by...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 11 months ago
The presidential campaign is pressing into the heat of summer just as the government issues new jobless numbers that will define the state of the economy and the political contest four months from Election Day. President Barack Obama on Friday...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
President Obama and Mitt Romney are both campaigning on a promise to revitalize the economy, but a new poll offers a gloomy forecast for the next presidential term no matter who is in the White House . Most of the 32 economists polled in an...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
The new numbers from the Labor Department will either give Obama new ammunition to argue that the economy is coming back, or provide Republican Mitt Romney with new evidence to the contrary. A private analysis released today gives Obama reason to...
