Population Growth
WASHINGTON - A wave of government layoffs in September outpaced weak hiring in the private sector, pushing down the nation's payrolls by a net total of 95,000 jobs.
WASHINGTON - Companies likely added a small number of jobs last month, but hardly enough to bring much relief to the nation's 15 million unemployed.
WASHINGTON - The economy is still growing, just not by much.
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran's decades of internationally-acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import.
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