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THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate was 71% for the three months leading up to March 2009.
28th May 2009, Page 49
28th May 2009
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— THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate was 71% for the three months leading up to March 2009.
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It rose 0.8% over the previous quarter and 1.8% over the year. An extra quarter of a million unemployed in the first three months of the year brought the total to 2.22 million.
According to the Office for National Statistics, these are the largest quarterly increases in the unemployment level and rate since 1981.
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