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Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened lower on Friday following losses in global equity markets as worries about the economic recovery persisted.

<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday.</p>

Just when you thought that the Obama administration was as ridiculous as it could get with the fictitious "jobs created statistic, our change agent president thinks out of the box nay he burst through the box of "bogus" designations with his new way to report stimulus jobs, its called "Jobs Funded." The Obama administration has taken some heat and mockery for using the bogus non-economic term of jobs being “saved or created” by the $787 billion stimulus program. Guess what, "you aint seen nothing yet"`. As Woody Allen said in Bananas It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham...

How did Kentucky shoe store owner Buddy Moore save nine jobs with just $889.60 in federal stimulus money? He didn’t, and that’s turning into a big headache for him.Moore’s store in Campbellsville, Ky., filed one of 156,614 reports from recipients of stimulus dollars designed to show how money from the $787 billion program is being spent, and how many jobs the funds have created or saved. Moore’s slice of the stimulus came in an $889.60 order from the Army Corps of Engineers for nine pairs of work boots for a stimulus project. Moore says he’s been supplying the Corps with...