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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Number of jobs up: number of jobless up, too

jobsgraph-bureauoflaborandstatisticsApril job data strong... by Christine Hauser, The New York Times

Does robust jobs report mean blue skies ahead? by  Scott Neuman, NPR [graphs data: Bureau of Labor Statistics]

Jobless rate ticks up to 9 percent by Tamara Keith and Steve Inskeep, Morning Edition, NPR Listen to the Story [4mins 3secs] unemploymentrate-bureauoflaborstatistics

GOP rethinking bid to overhaul Medicare rules by Carl Hulse and Jackie Calmes, The New York Times (Jennifer Steinhauer contributed reporting.)

Are you going to serve her, or do you plan to fix her by Lois M. Collins, Deseret News

Atlantic City looks to bus more homeless back home by Wayne Parry, Associated Press-“If the travel program is the carrot, there is also a stick being brandished: the prospect of stepped-up sweeps of the entire Boardwalk, to move homeless squatters along.” 

Francisco Ortiz 458952talks about his own experiences as he stands outside Sister Jean’s Soup Kitchen, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where hundreds of homeless and indigent people line up each day for lunch time.

St Anne’s in search of $7M for new shelter by Scott Schwebke, Standard-Examiner

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Art: Indian sand artist Sudarshan Puttnaik gives finishing touches to a sand sculpture...[AP photo by Biwaranjan Rout]

Music: One of my favorite songs by Bob Dylan, it speaks of how even the mighty may fall. Not one of the best versions, but good & live, from MTV’s Unplugged series.

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