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White House Council of Economic Advisers -- April 2010 Job Chart

MICROSOFT ISSUES BLOG

THEY STILL CAN'T -- ANALYSIS BY DOUG HACKNEY, autopsis.com

HOW MUCH INFORMATION? -- READ THE REPORT AT GLOBAL INFORMATION INDUSTRY CENTER

U.S. debt from 1940 to 2008. Red lines indicate the public debt and black lines indicate the gross debt, the difference being that the gross debt includes funds held by the government (e.g. the Social Security Trust Fund). The second chart shows debt as a percentage of U.S. GDP or dollar value of economic production per year. Data from U.S. Budget historical tables at whitehouse.gov/omb

UNITED STATES NATIONAL DEBT

NASA FINDS WATER ON THE MOON

The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact.

Pew Report: "Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril"

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, November 2009

The percentage of officially unemployed Americans rose to the highest level since April 1983, with 15.7 million out of work. An alternative gauge of unemployment used by the BLS, U6, rose to 17.5%, or 27 million Americans. Unlike U3, the U6 figure includes "discouraged workers" and those who are employed part time only because they can’t find full-time jobs.(DAILY KOS)