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LI's economic recovery is in our hands

Quick ReadFuel oil is south of $4 a gallon. The average 30-year mortgage is well below 4 percent. New unemployment applications fell last week to their lowest level in more than three years.

A gas station in Smithtown (April 25, 2011)

Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | A gas station in Smithtown (April 25, 2011)

Ellis Henican

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Fuel oil is south of $4 a gallon. The average 30-year mortgage is well below 4 percent. New unemployment applications fell last week to their lowest level in more than three years.

But everybody's still feeling squeezed.

That's the thing about these lingering tough times. It isn't so much that any one day is unbearable. It's that after so many hard ones, everyone is desperate for some...

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