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Unemployment rate dips but part-time work increases

WASHINGTON - After three months of deep job losses, the unemployment rate settled down just slightly in April to 5 percent - better than analysts had expected but masking a sharp increase in part-time work.

Clinton, Obama highlight differences over gas tax

MUNSTER, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs.

LONG ISLAND BRIEFS: NASSAU SHERIFF NOMINEE DISPUTE.

A group of black police officials wants the Suozzi administration to withdraw its designated candidate for Nassau sheriff, a man with a high school diploma, because they say he is underqualified.

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