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US economy adds 227,000 jobs in February; unemployment rate remains at 8.3 percent; 13 million people still unemployed

by Ylan Q Mui

As the country logs its third straight month of strong job growth, economists and politicians are daring to hope that a recovery dogged by false starts and sluggishness is finally taking hold.

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    For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
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