Roswell Daily Record 4-07-13

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Obama: Budget not ‘ideal’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his soon-to-be released budget, already criticized by friends and foes, is not his “ideal plan” but offers “tough reforms” for benefit programs and scuttles some tax breaks for the wealthy. That’s a mix, he contends, that will provide long-term deficit reduction without harming the economy. In his first comments about the 2014 spending blueprint he’s set to release Wednesday, Obama said he intends to reduce deficits and provide new money for public works projects, early

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education and job training. “We don’t have to choose between these goals — we can do both,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, broadcast Saturday. Obama’s plan for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 calls for slower growth in government benefits programs for the poor, veterans and the elderly, as See BUDGET Page A3 AP Photo

RIGHT: President Barack Obama speaks at the Police Academy in Denver, Wednesday.

First S.O.Y Mariachifest a success

JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER The vibrant sounds of trumpets, guitars, violins and Spanish poetic lyrics danced through the breeze Saturday afternoon at Cielo Grande Recreation Area as a Roswell-based youth mariachi club entertained guests during its first festival. The Saving Our Youth (S.O.Y) Mariachifest was a success for the estimated 1,000 men, women and children who brought lawn chairs and blankets to sit and enjoy the day. “I like all kinds of music, so this is great,” said event-goer Clyde Vargas. “My wife also loves them. All my family loves all kinds of music. They start young, don’t they!” Vargas and his wife watched the S.O.Y

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LEFT: Roswell Folklorico performs during the 1st Annual S.O.Y. Mariachifest at the Cielo Grande Amphitheater, Saturday.

Emergency siren Are NKorea’s neighbors testing Mon, Tue at risk of nuclear strike? HUBBARD LEADS GHS TO WIN ARTESIA — There’s no better feeling than having one of your best games against your archrival. Danielle Hubbard was ... - PAGE B1

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The City of Roswell doesn’t want to alarm the public Monday and Tuesday, but a series of emergency services siren tests will take place several times throughout the two days as the city makes repairs. “We really wanted to make sure (the system) works all together and the only way to test that is to test them all,” said Karen Sanders, Roswell’s Emergency Manager. A technician from Albuquerque will arrive sometime Monday. Shortly after his arrival, the testing will begin, Sanders said. Only two sites will need repair — one near the Elks pool on East Poe Street and one by Briar Ridge — but because the system is interlinked, all sirens will be set off throughout the day. The city has 12 sirens, most of them are no newer than 10 years old. Two new sirens were installed last year. “There is no way to single out a specific siren,” Sanders said. “We ask dispatch to set them all off at once.” In an emergency, the city uses the sirens to alert the public of an impending threat. “We just wanted to give everybody a head’s up,” Sanders said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea is widely recognized as being years away from perfecting the technology to back up its bold threats of a pre-emptive strike on America. But some nuclear experts say it might have the know-how to fire a nuclear -tipped missile at South Korea and Japan, which host U.S. military bases. No one can tell with any certainty how much technological progress North Korea has made, aside from perhaps a few people close to its secretive leadership.

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In this April 15 file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.

Dropouts: Discouraged Americans leave labor force

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up. She’d already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, couns el i n g t h e d i sa b l ed . Bu t sh e c o ul d n ’ t l an d a n y t hi n g else , either — not even a job interview

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at a telephone call center. Un ti l s he fe els co nfide nt en ou g h t o sen d o ut r esu mes again , sh e’ ll g et b y on f oo d st a mp s an d d isa bil it y ch eck s from Social Security and live with her parents in St. Louis. “I’m not proud of it,” says Bae-

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This March 29 file photo shows a help wanted sign at a barber shop in Richmond, Va. U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring. Many discouraged Americans are giving up the job hunt for school, retirement and disability.

bler, who is in her mid-30s and is blind. “The only way I’m able to sustain any semblance of selfpreservation is to rely on government programs that I have no desire to be on.” Baebler’s frustrating experience has become all too common nearly fo ur y ea rs aft er th e Gr eat Recession ended: Many Americans are still so discouraged that they’ve given up on the job market. Older Americans have retired early. Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others have suspended their job hunt until the employment landscape brightens. Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks. It isn’t supposed to be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market. Instead, the number of Americans in the labor force — those who have a job or are looking for one — fell by nearly half a million people from February to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of working-age adults in the labor force — what’s called the participation rate —

fell to 63.3 percent last month. It’s the lowest such figure since May 1979. The falling participation rate tarnished the only apparent good news in the jobs report the Labor Department released Friday: The unemployment rate dropped to a four -year low of 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 in February. People without a job who stop look in g for on e ar e n o lon ger counted as unemployed. That’s why the U.S. unemployment rate dropped in March despite weak hiring. If the 496,000 who left the labor force last month had still been looking for jobs, the unemployment rate would have risen to 7.9 percent in March. “Unemployment dropped for all the wrong reasons,” says Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank Financial Gr oup. “It dropped because more workers stopped looking for jobs. It signaled less confidence and optim ism t hat t h er e a r e j ob s o ut there.” The participation rate peaked at 67.3 percent in 2000, reflectSee LABOR Page A3


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