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By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred BackusIn the wake of a positive jobs report in April, which showed a drop in the nation s unemployment rate, Americans views of the economy have shown the first significant boost in over six years, according to a CBS News poll released Wednesday. Forty-three percent now think the economy is at least fairly good - a six point rise from March and the highest rating of Barack stanley mugs Obama s presidency. St stanley cup ill, 55 percent view the economy as at least somewhat bad, including one in five who say it is very bad. More Americans now think the economy is improving: 30 percent think the economy is getting better while 26 percent think the economy is getting worse. These numbers were reversed in March. Forty-two percent think the economy is staying the same. Personal concerns about unemployment remain. Six in 10 Americans are at least somewhat concerned that they or someone else in their household might be out of work and looking for a job in the next twelve months, including one in three who are very concerned. Americans differ as to what they consider the best measure of the U. stanley cups uk S. economy s health. Thirty-three percent say the unemployment rate and jobs report is the best measure, followed by their own personal finances and those of people they know 27 percent , the price of goods and services they buy 26 percent , or the stock market 7 percent . Which economic measure p Zplv As Markets Reel, The Blame Game Begins
At a key moment during a labor-sponsored de stanley quencher bate in August, John Edwards laid down a marker against Hillar vaso stanley y Rodham Clinton. The one thing you can count on is you will never see a picture of me on the front of Fortune magazine saying I am the candidate that big, corporate America is betting on, he said, an unmistakable reference to a cover story about Clinton with the headline Business Loves Hillary! Who Knew On his current bus tour of Iowa, with the caucuses only three weeks away, Edwards rarely mentions his rivals. His campaign believes he hardly needs to because he spent months branding them - Clinton as the corporate Democrat, Barack Obama as the callow compromiser who would negotiate with special interests. On the campaign trail, his antagonists now are the corporations and special interests themselves. The Clinton and Obama references are merely implied, hidden in a populist message he calls America Rising. For the former trial lawyer, it s a closing argument to break away from a virtual three-way tie in Iowa and rise above the fray engulfing his main opponents. The reason we don t have universal health care is the insurance companies, drug companies and their lobbyists in Washington, he said in Grinnell, Iowa, this week, repeating a line in his standard speech. stanley cup The unspoken message: Clinton tried to overhaul health care as first lady and failed; Clinton accepts political contributions from lobbyists. Some people sugge