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This article describes a measure proposed by Obama as part of his healthcare overhaul and job creation plans, in which $225 million in Department of Labor grants would be used to train 15,000 people in job skills in careers such as healthcare, info-tech and other high growth fields. A high and steady rate of employment is a principle macroeconomic goal of the government.

This article is about the unemployment rate in the United States. Seeing as one of the macroeconomic goals is full employment, this article examines how the U.S. is failing to reach those goals.

This article reports about the potential "side-effects" of President Obama's new agenda that attempts to reconstruct financial regulation, overhaul the national health care system, and deal with long-term budget deficits. This is relevant to this weeks topic because US is currently attempting to recover from its catastrophe disaster and aim to achieve almost all the macroeconomics goals

One of the macroeconomic goals is economic growth. This article discusses Japan losing its title as the second-largest economy in the world to China. Japan however is not worried because their economy is growing after their recession and that is what matters, not the title.

This article is about the macroeconomic goal of maintaining stable price levels. Inflation is where there is so much money that it lessens in value. China is currently experiencing this. They are attempting to combat it and stabilize price levels by lessening the availability of credit. If less loans are available, then less money will be spent, and money will retain its value.

A macroeconomic goal is on relieving low unemployment. When more people in a country have jobs, that country will grow and produce more economically. People will have more money to spend and use, making them able to buy things that will improve their standard of living.The inflation concern is that productivity is slowing at a time when wage growth is picking up. That's a recipe for faster increases in unit labor costs, which correlate with inflation outside of energy and food.

Despite their great numbers, many of the men not working are missing from the nation's best- known statistic on unemployment. The jobless rate is now low 4.6%, yet that number excluded most of the missinf men, because they have stopped looking for work and are therefore not considered officially unemployed. That makes the unemployment rate a far less useful measure of the country's well-being than it once was.

This article speaks about the United States, and about President Obama's desire to boost employment. He wants banks to increase lending to small businesses as a way to increasing employment.

In this article, Obama's intentions of increasing employment levels and economic growth are being shown through his pressure on banks to increase lending to small businesses.

This article gives an example of the positive impacts of a lower unemployment rate. The article mentions that as a result, interest rates will most likely increase in March.

In this article, China's desire to overcome the crisis through economic growth is shown, as it has increased exports enormously, to increase injections, up to reaching number one in the whole world, on top of Germany.