Posted: 13 Jun 2010 07:16 PM PDT

Census jobs, paying $14 to $15 an hour, give 1,700 local workers a temporary paycheck. document.write (" "); When May's jobs data was released and the nation's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 9.7 percent, skeptics scoffed that 411,000 of the 431,000 the jobs that were added to the economy last month were short-term posts with the 2010 U.S. Census.

Posted: 13 Jun 2010 06:37 PM PDT

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Many in fishing communities accepting handouts for the first time

Posted: 13 Jun 2010 05:29 PM PDT

DELACROIX, La. -- A month into the oil spill, Bernard Johnson sat in his living room in this Gulf Coast fishing village watching news of the crude's slow and deadly seep into the bays and bayous where he has made a living for nearly three decades.

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