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Todd Wilkes, left, and Gus Garay look at appliances at a Home Depot store in Georgia. Sales of durable goods in the last quarter grew at annual rate of 22.3 percent. The nation’s gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the quarter that ended in September, matching its average growth rate of the last 80 years, according to the Commerce Department. But government programs to encourage consumer spending on things like cars and houses are expiring, and employers remain reluctant to hire more workers, suggesting the recovery may not last, economists say. “The big-picture perspective is that ...
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A Boeing Co. 787 jet sits on the production line at Boeing's manufacturing facility in Everett, Washington, on Feb. 3, 2010. Photographer: Kevin P. Casey/Bloomberg March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co., talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the outlook for the U.S. economy. Feroli also discusses the Treasury market and Federal Reserve monetary policy. (Source: Bloomberg) March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment officer at Johnson Illington, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about the outlook for ...
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WASHINGTON — Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a fifth consecutive month in May but sales fell for the first time in more than a year, sending a cautionary signal about the strength of the recovery. Wholesale inventories increased 0.5 percent while sales dropped 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said Friday. It was the first decline for sales since March of 2009. The May sales decline is the latest sign that the economic recovery could be losing momentum in the second half of the year. Weakness in sales could discourage businesses from boosting their orders. That would translate ... Read More
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WASHINGTON — Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone. The Obama administration and Congress have identified universal broadband as a key to driving economic development, producing jobs and bringing educational opportunities and cutting-edge medicine to all corners of the country. "We're at a point where high-speed access to the Internet is critical to the ability of people to be successful in today's economy and ...
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(Reuters) - The U.S. poverty rate hit its highest level in 11 years in 2008 as the worst recession since the Great Depression threw millions of Americans out of work, a government report showed on Thursday. The Census Bureau said the poverty rate -- the percentage of people living in poverty -- jumped to 13.2 percent, the highest level since 1997, from 12.5 percent in 2007. About 39.8 million Americans were living in poverty, up from 37.3 million in 2007. Despite signs the economy was showing signs of crawling out the slump that started in December 2007, the poverty rate would rise gain this year and beyond 2010 as unemployment ...
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Carter Smith, executive director of Texas Parks and Wildlife, speaks at the Lufkin/Angelina County Chamber of Commerce First Friday luncheon at Pitser Garrison Civic Center. Posted: Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:15 am | Updated: 10:51 pm, Fri Jul 9, 2010. By LARISSA GRAHAM/The Lufkin Daily News Carter Smith, executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife
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The Nation’s international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $40.3 billion in April from $40.0 billion (revised) in March, as exports decreased more than imports. Exports decreased to $148.8 billion in April from $149.8 billion in March. Goods were $104.0 billion in April, down from $105.2 billion in March, and services were $44.8 billion in April, up from $44.7 billion in March. Imports decreased to $189.1 billion in April from $189.9 billion in March. Goods were $156.5 billion in April, down from $157.5 billion in March, and services were $32.6 billion in April, up from $32.4 billion in March. For goods, the ...
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COMMERCE, Texas - Existing programs in the Department of Health and Human Performance have had their course content concentrated to produce greater expertise and more cohesive areas of study. "Our students will have more coursework in their field of specialization and gain greater expertise in that area. Adding programs also provides our students with additional career opportunities," says Dr. Ken Alford, department head. The department will offer a new Bachelor of Science major in human performance this fall, leading to an honors option. In spring, two new undergraduate majors - health promotion, and sport and ...
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The Americans will tell you it was Philo Taylor Farnsworth (what a name!). The Russians and RCA will tell you it was Vladimir Zworykin, duly credited with inventing the iconscope, or TV camera tube. But like all complex devices, the television had many contributing inventors. Philo Farnsworth was an American engineer born in 1906 who researched television picture transmission. He developed the dissector tube, which is the basis of all current electronic televisions. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth became the first inventor to transmit a television image. While Farnsworth did invent the tube, it was Nipkov in 1895 who ...
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