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Jobs Report an Upside Surprise

More evidence of an economic recovery: Nonfarm payrolls declined by 247,000 in July; the unemployment rate dipped slightly, to 9.4%

Written by Barbara K. Iverson

August 7th, 2009 at 10:49 am

Posted in Economics

Tagged with jobs, trends

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