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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | Bureau of Labor Statistics in a partisan squabble
In hyperpartisan Washington, few agencies try as hard to avoid the political arena as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a sleepy collection of Labor Department number-crunchers who gather statistics on the state of the economy.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
CNN Money | White House defends the drop in unemployment
The Romney-Ryan camp is trying to discredit the falling unemployment rate, claiming it's due mainly to workers dropping out of the labor force. But Obama administration official Gene Sperling shot back Tuesday: "That just ain't so."