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Go Home Still 9.1 Percent

TIMOTHY NOAH OCTOBER 7, 2011

Still 9.1 Percent

BY TIMOTHY NOAH

The new jobless numbers are out. They're apparently a smidgen better than was expected, but the unemployment rate remains 9.1 percent. Letting Warren Buffet pay less in taxes than his secretary doesn't appear to be doing the trick.

Leading the recovery, such as it is, are health care and education, two sectors where spending is universally acknowledged to be wildly out of control.

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Another way to look at it are that Health-Care and Education are two areas most resistant to Recession. People still get sick, and people still want to send their kids to college. In fact, with so many states down-sizing their teachers, for Education to be doing well is a good thing.

- AllanL5

October 7, 2011 at 9:42am

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Don't pay attention to the carpers out here, Timothy. A lot of us appreciate your writing here at The New Republic.

- liberalref

October 7, 2011 at 9:59am

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I think I just heard a tea partier's head implode.

- GSpinks

October 7, 2011 at 1:43pm

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"Letting Warren Buffett pay less in taxes"??? The Tax code is not optional! It's about requiring fairness in the tax code.

- LavaQ

October 8, 2011 at 12:21am

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