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Unemployment Rate Drops, but Long-Term Jobless See...

Clip: 4/1/2011 | 11m 27s

Unemployment Rate Drops, but Long-Term Jobless See 'Troubling' Stagnation

The U.S. unemployment rate for March dropped to a two-year low of 8.8 percent as the economy gained 216,000 jobs. Ray Suarez discusses the numbers with Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisers and Catherine Mann of Brandeis University International Business School.

04/01/2011

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