American spenders pressed by falling incomes and rising unemployment at home will begin to find EU goods priced in strong euros less and less appealing.

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But many Venezuelans would prefer their president to spend less time and money overseas and more on crime, unemployment and corruption at home.

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And when the economy grows, we all will be happy to pay more taxes because we all will be back at work, busy making money instead of sitting at home on food stamps and unemployment.

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Higher education, whether at home or overseas, is especially attractive at the moment because the alternative for many young people is unemployment.

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Can they -- should they be looking at the metric of the stock market, home foreclosures, unemployment?

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Blair's supporters in his North-East of England constituency, battling crippling levels of unemployment in a former mining area, needed the guarantee of a decent home for their families at a reasonable rent that council housing provided.

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I'm not willing to see 2 million Americans who stand to lose their unemployment insurance at the end of this month be put in a situation where they might lose their home or their car or suffer some additional economic catastrophe.

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With unemployment hovering at 9.2% there are less butts in office chairs, and more butts at home watching Judge Judy.

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