AP
by Martin Crutsinger
December 12, 2012

The Federal Reserve projects the unemployment rate will stay elevated until late 2015, suggesting it will keep short-term interest rates low for the next three years.

The latest economic forecasts released Wednesday after the Fed's final meeting of the year were little changed from September. But they coincided with a new communication strategy announced by the Fed that links future interest rate hikes with unemployment below 6.5 percent.

The unemployment rate was 7.7 percent in November.

The central bank said that it expects economic growth to improve next year but that it will be no stronger than 3 percent. Growth could increase to 3.5 percent in 2014 and 3.7 percent in 2015.

Unemployment will fall no lower than 7.4 percent next year and 6.8 percent by the end of 2014, the Fed projects. The earliest the Fed sees unemployment dropping below 6.5 percent is the end of 2015.

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That darn Bush. Will we never get out of his recession?

Hmmmm

I wonder when in the 3 years they'll help it along by some dramatic implementation of UN Agenda 21.

The dead are certainly rather unemployed in this sphere.

First there's creative accounting, i.e. shrinking the civilian labor force.

Who needs agenda21 when there are ObamaCare's death panels? Ooops I meant 'best care practices'.