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Unemployment back to pre-recession levels

Name: Unemployment back to pre-recession levels
Uploaded: 2014-05-31T06:55:37-0400
Duration: 1 min 31 s
Description: The nation’s unemployment rate sits at 6.3 percent, just a tenth of a percent below the pre-recession peak. While the number of those out of work more than six months has dropped by more than 900,000 in the past year, the ranks remain bloated at 3.5 million. Jill Schlesinger reports.

The nation’s unemployment rate sits at 6.3 percent, just a tenth of a percent below the pre-recession peak. While the number of those out of work more than six months has dropped by more than 900,000 in the past year, the ranks remain bloated at 3.5 million. Jill Schlesinger reports.