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According to the government's survey of payrolls, the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.2 percent, the lowest level since September 11.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* According to the government's survey of payrolls, the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.2 percent, the lowest level since September 11. In the last 20 months, 2.7 million jobs have been created. During President Bush's first term, the economy added 119,000 new jobs. This last statistic would not be particularly important except that Democrats taunted Bush, during his reelection campaign, for being the ...

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