What Karl's Reading
On January 2, on “Fox and Friends Weekend,” I revealed that my New Year’s resolution was to read, on average, a book a week in 2010. Since then, I've received a surprising number of questions and decided, with some trepidation, to chart my reading progress.
By Hugh Howard
Interesting volume on how George Washington was not just first in the hearts of his countrymen, but also of his country's early artists, whose portraits of him both drew attention to their skill. This also allowed many of them to make a living at art in a small, sparsely populated new nation on the eastern edge of the North American continent.
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Job Growth Numbers
There were more jobs lost than expected in July, with the unemployment rate holding at 9.5%. The 131,000 jobs lost, in addition to the 6.6 million people (45% of Americans) who said they were out of work for more than six months or more, may be a sign that the economic recovery, said to have begun in July 2009, continues to lose momentum. According to The Wall Street Journal, when also considering the revisions to unemployment summaries of prior months this year, "...the U.S. economy added an average of less than 100,000 jobs a month in the first seven months, a level that's not strong enough to bring unemployment down."
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