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20,000 jobs lost in US as official unemployment rate falls
Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/jobs-f06.shtml
The official US unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January, despite 20,000 jobs lost, according to monthly figures for December released Friday by the Labor Department. The number of jobs, which the labor department called “essentially unchanged,” was affected by a number of contingent events, including the hiring of 9,000 temporary workers by the federal government to help with the 2010 census and the “inventory bounce” that took place in December.
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