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Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney: Regular people teach him about struggles

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

US economy souring, so what's a Democrat to do?

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months before the elections, the uneven economic recovery is sputtering and job growth is anemic. Stock prices are down to 2011 levels and news on the European debt front is menacing....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney campaign criticizes Obama's experience

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A weak labor market provided energy Sunday for criticism of President Barack Obama, with the campaign of presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney contending that the president's lack of executive leadership experience undermines his policies....

Jobless rate now a leading political indicator

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Every four weeks between now and November, a single number issued from a spare, windowless room in the heart of the federal bureaucracy will set the battle lines for the presidential election....

Activists jab Obama and Romney on economy

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Separated at rival conferences by 1,000 miles and a world of political ideology, liberal and conservative activists are finding themselves united by a deep disappointment with the nation's economy....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney targets 4 percent unemployment

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation's unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it "good news" that the U.S. economy is consistently adding jobs....

Romney: Obama denying middle class a 'fair shot'

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney launched a multistate bus tour through small-town America on Friday, charging that President Barack Obama hasn't given the middle class "a fair shot."...

Jobs report crucial in White House race

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
No sitting president facing an unemployment rate more than 8% has won another term since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Will parties keep hope alive for immigrant kids?

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
Rubio Navarrette says a rare bipartisan compromise over granting legal status to children of immigrants should be embraced
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Obama tells students to pressure Congress on loan rates

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
President Barack Obama on Friday urged high school students to e-mail, tweet, and teach their parents to tweet a message to Congress to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

GOP rival hopes to end Indiana Sen. Lugar's career

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-05 21:08
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Republican Richard Lugar has shown through a lengthy Senate career that he can broker compromises on international and domestic issues, and avoid the acrimony that often brings Washington to a halt....
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