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Unemployment Rate Jumps to 25-Year High of 8.5 Percent

by Breitbart TV3 Apr 20090

The US unemployment rate leapt to a new 25-year high of 8.5 percent in March as recession-battered employers shed another 663,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday.


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