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Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_unemployment
The Obama administration is predicting little improvement in the nation's unemployment rate by the end of the year. Although President Barack Obama says the multitrillion-dollar spending plan released Monday is designed to get Americans back to work, the administration forecasts 9.8 percent unemployment at the end of this year. That would be down only slightly from the current rate of 10 percent.