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From Ben Bernanke, in a speech to the Economic Club of New York:

The best thing we can say about the labor market right now is that it may be getting worse more slowly.

Hey, you know what would be great right about now? Federal aid to states to keep them from going bankrupt and making the labor market even worse. There must be a branch of the government out there somewhere that could do something along these lines. Thinking it starts with an L…..