Jobs
Oct 3 2008, AP

Jobs are vanishing at the fastest pace in more than five years with pink slips likely to keep stacking higher in the months ahead, an urgent signal the country may be careening toward a deep and painful recession just as Americans prepare to elect a new president.

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In this June 3, 2008 file photo, showing the General Motors Corp. assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio. GM will close the plant Dec. 23, 2008, ending the jobs of the final 1,400 workers two days before Christmas. With the state’s unemployment rate at a...