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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Unemployment at 7 percent for the first time since 2008

David Brancaccio Dec 6, 2013
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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Unemployment at 7 percent for the first time since 2008

David Brancaccio Dec 6, 2013
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The U.S. unemployment rate has fallen to 7 percent, its lowest point in 5 years. Employees added 203,000 jobs to payrolls in November, a bit better than economists’ predictions of 180,000. But Julia Coronado, chief economist, North America for BNP Paribas in New York, says that like a lot of good economic news lately, this one comes with an asterisk

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