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Obama adviser urges reality check over jobs

By Sarah O’Connor in Washington

Published: June 5 2009 19:22 | Last updated: June 5 2009 19:22

A wave of enthusiasm greeted Friday’s news that 345,000 jobs were cut in the US last month, far fewer than during the darkest days of this recession.

But Austan Goolsbee, a senior economic adviser to Barack Obama, US president, was unmoved.

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