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Unemployment claims fall but still show impact of Sandy
US jobless claims fell back to 393,000 in the most recent week, the Labor Department said Thursday, still showing the impact of superstorm Sandy which blasted the Northeast in late October. Claims in the week to November 24 fell from 416,000 the previous week and 451,000 in the November 10…
Summer 2010 a record-breaking scorcher
New numbers confirm what the sweaty brows of Northeasterners have been saying for months: The summer of 2010 was a record-breaking scorcher. Preliminary figures provided by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University on Friday show 28 cities from Washington, D.C., to Caribou, Maine, set record highs for average…
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