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1. May 18, 2011 12:25 PM

   WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing, which is one of the few sources of real growth, isn't necessarily all that good. This is the dominant story on page one—welcome placement for such a piece—but it really could have used a few more days of reporting. The...

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2. April 21, 2011 10:46 PM

   Big Companies and Jobs, Then and Now

   By Ryan Chittum

   New York's Andre Tartar has a intriguing post on the biggest American corporations and how much their employment levels have changed over the last half a century. His conclusion: It’s a stark illustration of a hard truth: Being a top American business no longer necessarily means employing lots of American workers. The Atlantic's Derek Thompson riffs on that: Fifty years...

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3. October 23, 2012 11:00 AM

   Debunking the ‘war on coal,’ take two

   The AP gets it right the second time around

   By Curtis Brainard

   If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Such was The Associated Press’s approach this month to explaining the so-called ‘war on coal’ that conservative spin doctors have been peddling throughout the presidential campaign. An October 15 article by Donna Cassata failed miserably, recycling the narrative that environmental regulations under the Obama administration are the reason for recent turmoil...

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4. October 28, 2011 06:33 PM

   Flack-Driven Local Coverage of a Factory Closure Fails

   Fort Smith's Southwest Times Record blows it on a huge loss to the community

   By Ryan Chittum

   Whirpool is laying off more than a thousand employees in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and shipping the work to Mexico and two plants in the U.S. So how does the local paper, the Southwest Times Record, cover the exit of one of its largest employers? With stories that read like they were written by Whirlpool's PR department. Here's the lede from...

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5. September 15, 2011 12:39 AM

   Framing the Jobs Plan… Er, Second Stimulus

   This time Democrats get that language matters, and the press plays along

   By Ryan Chittum

   Barack Obama proposed his second stimulus last week, pitching a $450 billion measure. Or is it a jobs plan? Let's say it's both. Last go-round, the economic legislation was called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which just goes to show that the Democrats really are clueless when it comes to political language. That somehow never entered the national consciousness...

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6. April 25, 2011 05:52 PM

   Ohio’s Lost Decade

   Dayton paper shines light on a devastating job and income losses.

   By Dean Starkman

   Look what's happened to payrolls in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the last decade: Annual private payrolls dropped about $3 billion — from $11.4 billion in 2000 when adjusted for inflation to $8.3 billion by 2010 — according to data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. That 27 percent slide is the biggest percentage decline among Ohio’s...

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7. June 1, 2012 11:00 AM

   The word on the street: frustrated

   Listening to voters at a Pennsylvania Walmart

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Last week a NBC News/Marist poll showed President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a tight race in Florida and Virginia while Obama led by six percentage points in Ohio, another swing state.The top issue: the economy; voters told pollsters the economy trumped social issues by a wide margin, and that was before today's devastating jobs report. Pennsylvania is another...

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