Jobs report dismal again

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The Albany Herald Editoral Board

As the summer sun bears down, there appears to be only one thing guaranteed to stay cold.

Jobs creation.

The June jobs created numbers was a bleak 80,000, bringing the average for April, May and June to 75,000. Combined, there were about 140,000-150,000 fewer new jobs than were needed just to meet population growth. The last three-month period in which job creation was this dismal was August-October 2010.

The result is an unemployment rate of 8.2 percent that doesn

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