nytimes.com - 1/20/2009
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COLUMBIA, S.C. Joe Lewis came to the local employment office on Friday in the hope of buying a little more time. Four months had passed since he lost his job as a maintenance worker at a chain of convenience stores, trading a paycheck of $370 a week for an unemployment check of $180 a week. ...
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Even as hopeful throngs poured into Washington for Tuesday’s inauguration ceremonies, many financial experts were noting the huge economic challenges facing the soon-to-be president, Barack Obama. Some 2.6 million jobs have disappeared since December 2007, when the recession began, The New York Times’s Peter Goodman points out . And the federal budget is being stretched by potentially expensive bailouts for the nation’s financial institutions.“Nothing that Obama can do can undo the damage quickly,” Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University economist and Nobel laureate, ...
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