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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Hiring Stalled as Economic Outlook Remains Murky

Updated: January 8 2010,
Author: barrel fan
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Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business, Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment, Producers
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As part of his continuing series of reports on Making Sense of the economy, Paul Solman travels to Atlanta to gauge the hiring outlook in a down economy.

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