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With unemployment at 9.5 percent, is the stimulus working?

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By orders of magnitude, unemployment is rising faster than the new jobs promised from the $800 billion stimulus.

Some economists and some Democrats want another package.

The president says, give this one more time.

Republicans already are saying, I told you so.

Meantime, just one job is available for every six unemployed workers.

Are schools and workplace developers training people for jobs that just don't exist?

Who finds work and who doesn't?

Will the so-called green economy pick up the slack?

On reporter's notebook later on, The Uyghurs and China's continuing problems with ethnic unrest. First, here's the slack. On reporter's notebook later on, The Uyghurs, and China's continuing problems with ethnic unrest.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Mormon Alney. Back with To the Poet. The President's $800 billion stimulus package hasn't been fully rolled out yet, but the U.S. economy's already almost 7 million jobs in the whole since the recession began.

Who's able to find work and who's not? Is more stimulus money needed? How much worse is it going to be before it gets better?

On reporter's notebook, China's president Hu Jintao has rushed home from the G8 to deal with

rioting by the Uyghurs, one of 55 officially recognized minorities. We heard about ethnic unrest

in a diverse nation. First is news update. More than a thousand demonstrators were met with tear gas and beatings today in Tehran

as violence continued in the aftermath of last month's contested elections.

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