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The unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, the lowest rate in four and a half years.(Brief article)

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The unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, the lowest rate in four and a half years. From November through January, the economy created a healthy 230,000 new jobs each month. (Since May 2003, 5 million jobs have been created.) These numbers were bad news ...

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