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Published: May 13, 2009

Last Friday the U.S. Labor Department announced that nearly 540,000 Americans lost their jobs in April. As bad as that sounds, last month's jobless total was less than most economists had predicted. In fact, it was the lowest increase in joblessness in 14 months. Of late there have been a few other signs that the economy may not be recovering yet but its rate of decline has begun to slow.

Nevertheless, plenty of people are still hurting, including folks here in Pasco County. You only have to talk to the people who run food banks for the needy to know this. So it was good to hear that the annual food drive spearheaded by the National Association of Letters Carriers, which represents U.S. Postal Service employees, held Saturday, had netted 205,000 pounds of canned goods in Pasco. The food goes to the Volunteer Way, a food bank in New Port Richey. Despite the recession, people left more canned goods beside their mailboxes for the letter carriers to collect this year than in years past.

Hats off to the NALC, the Pasco Sheriff's Office, which helped handle the donated food, and Pasco residents for a combined job well done.

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