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She’s a conservative, Hispanic woman who is the Republican nominee for Congress in Washington state’s 3rd congressional district.

Obamanomics has failed. More people suffer in poverty today in America than since the Census Bureau began keeping poverty records 51 years ago. The total is 44 million, one in seven Americans.

A total of 27 states reported higher unemployment rates in August, nearly double the 14 that saw increases in July, the Labor Department said in its monthly report on state unemployment Tuesday. The jobs picture continues to look a lot more grim in places like Nevada, Michigan and California. -CNN

Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Government employment fell, as 114,000 temporary workers hired for the decennial census completed their work. Private-sector payroll employment continued to trend up modestly (+67,000).

Several major retailers are closing stores. That means more unemployed and downward pressure on commercial real estate revenues and values.

A damning memo shows the administration knew its oil drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico would kill tens of thousands of jobs but did it anyway. We’re the ones getting drilled.

A slowdown in U.S. business investment may soon hit the job market, further hindering a recovery in the world’s largest economy.

Summer of recovery continues to be summer of propaganda as reality rears its ugly head.

New Foreclosures Worsened By High Unemployment

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said the audit “should serve as a wake-up call as to the implications of politically orchestrated bailouts and how putting decisions about private enterprise in the hands of political appointees and bureaucrats can lead to costly and unintended consequences.”