Patt Morrison for Thursday, July 2, 2009
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“Green Shoots” Look Like Mold to American Workers
What happened to the great American economic recovery? While other economic indicators, from manufacturing orders to purchases of durable goods, continue to show slow improvements, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.5% and workers’ wages dropped. While the stock market rallies and economists grow slightly more optimistic, what is the suffering American worker supposed to think?
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Dismal June Jobless Numbers - Do You Still Have Your Job?
The June unemployment numbers are out and the news isn’t good. 467,000 jobs were lost last month but how many were gained? We hear from listeners that have recently landed work; how did they do it, are they making more money, and can they offer some advice?
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The Most E-mailed Segment on Patt Morrison!
More and more frequently, online popularity rankings allow us to make decisions more quickly. But are they better decisions? Are they changing our behavior as consumers? And do such wide-spread rankings lead to more informed choices or more uniform ones?
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The Short Memories of Residents of Mannywood
Manny Ramirez, the Dodgers slugger who just completed a 50-game suspension for steroid use, is about to return to the Majors. Will he be shunned by bitter Dodgers fans, angry at his proven cheating and his seeming lack of remorse? Chances are good that Dodgers fans will have no such reservations rooting for Manny and will happily return to “Mannywood” with a collective warm embrace for their dreadlocked hero. Do baseball fans really care about steroid use?
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NASA’s JPL is So Over Earthquakes.
Can NASA solve Earth’s problems from space? It can try. JPL scientists are using space-based technologies to track earth’s movements and shifting fault lines in an attempt to not just predict, but to understand, earthquakes. Patt talks with JPL geophysicist Maggi Glasscoe to find out more.
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Despite Missile Threat Hawaiians Remain Lei’d Back.
Will fireworks be the only boom in the Hawaiian sky this 4th of July? North Korea may launch a missile toward Hawaii this Independence day but island residents don’t seem too worried by the threat. Would the 28-story, golf ball shaped U.S. military radar system floating in the Pacific be enough to keep you from shaking in your grass-skirt?
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