| Above the Fold |
September 6, 2012 |
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| US hiring outlook improves |
| By Christopher S. Rugaber |
| Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, and a private survey showed businesses stepped up hiring in August. The data sketched a brighter outlook for the job market one day before the government reports on August employment…Read more |
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| Today's News |
| AIG plans $2 billion share sale, repay feds |
| By The Associated Press |
| Insurance giant American International Group Inc. said Thursday that it's selling part of its stake in Asian insurer AIA Group Ltd. and plans to pay off more of its loans from the U.S. government…Read more |
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| Dems twist jobs numbers, GOP Medicare ideas |
| By Matt Apuzzo |
| On Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention, speakers cherry-picked employment numbers to make President Barack Obama's record on jobs look better than it is and misrepresented Republican proposals on Medicare to cast them in the worst light…Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 Interesting that they cite the health care law as evidence we're better off, when the law doesn't go into full effect until 2014. By every other economic indicator, we are worse off -- far worse off: higher unemployment than four years ago; higher national debt; while four years ago we were in recession, the expansion since 2009 has been anemic (1.5% GDP for the second quarter of 2012); poverty is up; incomes are down; also down is the overall wealth of the nation
-- Gregory Alterton, Are we really better off?
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