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[WWW]ONE imagines that Republican politicians and staffers have been doing a lot of praying over the past few weeks, as polls suggest it is all-but-certain that the party will lose control of at least one house of Congress in the pending mid-term elections. So new jobs figures released on Friday November 3rd must seem to be some sort of divine response. America[WWW]'s Bureau of Labour Statistics now suggests that unemployment has dropped to 4.4% [WWW]rmt, the lowest level in [WWW]r2five years—and better than all but the last two bubbly years of the Clinton administration, to which campaigning Democrats have often implicitly offered a return. [WWW]信長の野望 [WWW]リネージュ2rmt The headline unemployment figure has been good for a [WWW]ff11 while, of course. But many economists have suggested that this conceals softness in the labour market. Wages have been stagnant since George Bush took office, and labour-force participation is still a [WWW]wired full percentage point below the levels enjoyed under Bill Clinton. Critics of Mr Bush and his economic policies have been arguing in the run-up to the election that the strong economy is a myth,[WWW]Rmt with ordinary Americans sinking into misery while the lucky rich snatch all the gains from robust growth. from [WWW]アラド戦記