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WASHINGTON 鈥?The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Donald Trumps watch and few in Washington seem to care.And even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction.Thats the reality that will greet Trumps latest budget , which will promptly be shelved after landing with a thud on Monday. Like previous spending blueprints, Trumps plan for the 2020 budget year will propose cuts to many
stanley cup domestic programs favored by lawmakers in both parties but leave alone politically popular retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.READ NEXT: Trump offers budget with funds for border wall, Space ForceWashington probably will devote months to wrestling over erasing the last remnants of a failed 2011 budget deal that would otherwise cut core Pentagon operations by $71 billion and domestic agencies and foreign aid by $55 billion. Top lawmakers are pushing for a reprise of three prior deals to use spending cuts or new revenues and prop up additional spending rather than defray deficits that are again approaching $1 trillion.Its put deficit hawks in
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af1 puzzling months when the unemployment rate and the payrolls told different stories: unemployment ticked up by a tenth of a percentage point to 6.7 percent, while the economy added 175,000 jobs, exceeding the consensus predictions of 139,000 to 149,000 jobs. Februarys gains are below the 189,000 average monthly gains seen over the past year, but its worth noting, as Justin Wolfers re
adidas campus minded us last month, that the margin of error for the establishment survey that totals these payrolls is about 90,000 jobs.The number of jobless was a smidge higher, with 223,000 more people unemployed than in January. The reason: the labor force grew and more people couldnt find jobs. But the labor force participation rate, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, held steady from last month. For much of last year, unemployment declined simply because people were dropping out of the labor force . All told, I 39;m mildly more optimistic about the recovery after this jobs report. Seems to suggest a continuing rather than stalling recovery.mdash; Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers March 7, 2014This report is being heralded as fairly good news. Our own Solman Scale would agree. Our U-7 calculation of unemployment, which adds to the officially unemployed everyone who says they want a job and cant find one and those who are employed part-time for economic rea
stanley cup sons, came in at 14.58 percent. Our expanded pool of folks looking for a job is the lowest its been since we start
