[ Reuters: Top News] Jobless rate at 5-year high
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:30 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexpectedly steep 84,000 U.S. jobs were lost in August and the unemployment rate hit a five-year high of 6.1 percent, fanning worry ahead of November's presidential vote that the economy was near recession.
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