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NY Unemployment Rate Climbs to 9% in December

January 29, 2010

New York State’s adjusted unemployment rate climbed over the month from 8.6 percent in November to 9.0 percent in December 2009, matching a 26-year high, the State Labor Department reported recently.
The number of unemployed state residents increased from 832,200 to 868,600 over the same period.
In December 2009, New York State’s seasonally adjusted private sector [...]

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Wyclef gets $250,000 to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser

January 29, 2010

The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake.
However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its [...]

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$100 million to fight the Feds

October 3, 2009

A Jamaican immigrant of a Bronx address, Raymond Rodney, is appealing to the public for help. He claims that the New York Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has implanted a poisonous tracking device in his food to prevent him from pursuing a civil rights case that he brought against the Pittsburgh Federal Agency.
Rodney claims that [...]