Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to the lowest level since April 2008, the Labor Department said.

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Procter & Gamble’s failure to raise the price of Cascade dishwashing soap shows why investors are buying Treasuries at the lowest yields in history, giving the Federal Reserve more scope to boost the economy. Read full article > >

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Sign that bond market backs 3rd quantitative-easing round? Check Huggies’ price.

The Post published 875 corrections in the print edition this year through Dec. 30. That’s down from 1,054 in 2010, with one day left in the year. The 17 percent decrease is significant, and the total is the lowest for any year since The Post began counting in 2005, when it had more than 1,300 corrections, according to Managing Editor Raju Narisetti. Read full article > >

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For many products, the lowest prices tend to come at other times of the year, despite all the ads that suggest otherwise.

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Forecasting the Best Deals

WASHINGTON — The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level since April, a sign that employers could be stepping up hiring. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications dropped to a seasonally adjusted 390,000. It was the third decline in four weeks. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 400,000, also the lowest point since April. Read full article > >

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Applications for unemployment benefits fall to 390,000, lowest level since April

WASHINGTON — Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a hopeful sign that the job market might be picking up. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 397,000, the lowest level in five weeks. It’s only the third time since April that applications have fallen below 400,000. Read full article > >

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Fewer people seek unemployment benefits, a hopeful sign for struggling job market

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Ron Artest Voted Off ‘DWTS’

BEIJING — All across China, scores of ordinary citizens are challenging the Communist Party’s ironclad grip on political life, launching full-blown campaigns outside its grasp for local “people’s congresses.” The local congresses — the lowest rung in China’s government structure, equivalent to neighborhood commissions — are relatively powerless bodies in the complex system that the party maintains as a formal display of grass-roots participation. Until now, they have been filled almost entirely with candidates from the party, or people endorsed by it. Read full article > >

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China sees surge of independent candidates

The Isle of Wight is aiming to be self-sufficient and have the lowest carbon footprint in the UK by 2020.

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Isle of Wight reveals green ambitions

The U.S. economy added only 36,000 jobs in January-almost 60 percent fewer than in December, the Labor Department reported Friday. The unemployment rate fell to 9 percent, the lowest level in two years, because over half a million people without jobs…

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The counties with the highest income are in Virginia, the lowest in South Dakota, according to surveys.

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Census Data Reveal Pockets of Wealth and Poverty

Top pay in the public sector should not normally be more than 20 times that of the lowest paid worker in any public body, the government has been advised.

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On Saturday night temperatures in Wales and Northern Ireland fell to the lowest on record for November

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Wales’ coldest night in 89 years

Northern Ireland motorists face further problems as severe weather conditions continue and temperatures drop to the lowest on record for November.

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Temperatures fall to record low

This was really the lowest moment of President George W. Bush’s time in office? In an excerpt from Matt Lauer’s pretaped interview that will air on Monday, Bush said among the most “disgusting” moments of his presidency was when rapper Kanye West said…

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