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First-person: Furloughed federal employee in Denver: “I feel expendable this time.”

Joanne Grady, 49, is one of the 380,000 federal workers furloughed by the longest ongoing partial government shutdown in U.S. history. (Another 420,000 are working...

U.S. Unemployment rate drops to 8.6 percent in November

The national unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, with 120,000 new jobs added in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. “The number of unemployed persons, at 13.3 million, was down by 594,000,” Bureau analysts wrote.