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September 8, 2009

Official Unemployment Rate Surges to 9.7 Percent
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In economic news, the nation’s official unemployment rate surged to 9.7
percent in August, but economists say the actual unemployment rate is
nearly 17 percent. Employers cut 216,000 jobs last month. Teenagers have
been particularly hard hit. The teenage unemployment rate is now over 25
percent, the highest level since the government began keeping track of
such statistics in 1948.



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