The state is the third with a newly elected Republican governor to turn down the administration's rail project.
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The NYTimes is reporting that Florida Governor Rick Scott has rejected plans to build a high speed rail between Tampa and Orlando and, in doing so, has turned down $2 billion in federal funds and put up another barrier to Presiden
New York led the country with 22,800 job cuts last month, followed by Minnesota with 22,400 firings, and Florida with 17,900 according to figures from the report.
West Virginia had the most increase joblessness, up 0.3%, followed by Colorado, Georgia and Nevada, up 0.2% each. Nevada also showed the highest jobless rate in the country at 14.5%.
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The Labor Department reported that payrolls decreased in 35 U.S. states while the unemployment rate rose in 20, showing that the labor market recovery is slow to gather momentum, according to a Bloomberg report.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that home prices showed their best year-to-date gains since 2005, up 5.9% through July, signaling the housing market's steady march toward recovery. Also from the Wall Street Journal, IBM (IBM) will increase its efforts to sell so-called cloud computing services...
CEO Marissa Mayer is bringing in some more new blood to Yahoo!, tapping Ken Goldman as the company's new Chief Financial Officer. Goldman's appointment will take effect on October 22nd.
Goldman served as CFO at his most recent employer, Fortinet, having worked at Siebel Systems, Sybase,...