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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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"The headline is that the rate went down from 8.7% to 8.5%," said Thomas "Danny" Boston, Professor in the School of Economics. Boston continued, "Then the jobs, of course, 200,000 jobs [were created]. But more significantly is the fact of where the jobs were being created. In manufacturing, in construction, transportation. Those industries that were hardest hit by the recession are the industries where jobs are being recovered." Source: CNN - January 6, 2012
