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February 12, 2010

Improved Corporate Profits Not Leading to Job Growth
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New figures show the improving fortune of major corporations isn’t
leading to a simultaneous creation of new jobs. Bloomberg News reports a
majority of the Standard & Poor 500 have increased revenues to a
combined $1.18 trillion—a $518 billion increase over the year before.
But capital expenditures, or investments that could have helped create
jobs, were down 43 percent.



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