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Bill Knight: Our country is caught in a numbers crunch

BILL KNIGHT

With markets in flux (which is a huge understatement these three weeks since press time), polling flies in face of some ‘mandate’ concocted by those who are in power now. The American people aren’t the ones who are unhinged.

Quality of jobs is on the decline in Peoria

The Peoria area lost 2,800 jobs between July 2013 and July 2014, when its percentage of employed people fell 1.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics second-quarter report, but the five-county metro area is stable overall, says Bernard…