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Third straight month of weak hiring shows economy is struggling three years after recession ended. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Click to Continue »

The last piece of this month's economic data puzzle is expected to confirm what others have shown so far: the U.S. job machine isn't putting Americans back to work fast enough.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday, propelling the Nasdaq index to an 11-year high, after January's U.S. employment report sailed past expectations, boosting hopes for world's largest economy.

People like Christine Alonzo are keeping President Barack Obama afloat and giving his political team hope that he can win re-election despite high unemployment and sour attitudes about his policies and the country's future.

President Obama signed a jobs bill into law on Thursday, but declared that the measure “is by no means enough.”