Aug
7
Written by:
Russ Henke
8/7/2009 4:46 AM
This breaking news at 5:30 AM PDT Friday August 7th verifies the August 2nd blog entry in this space:
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent. It was a better than expected showing that offered a strong signal that the recession is finally ending."