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Article: New Hampshire's jobless rate inches up to 3.5 percent.
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- Telegraph (Nashua, NH)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2005
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Byline: Eileen Kennedy
Feb. 26--CONCORD -- For the second month in a row, the state's unemployment rate has moved gradually upward, resting at 3.5 percent for January, according to state officials.
In November, the rate was 3.1 and moved to 3.4 percent in December, according to the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security. The state's unemployment rate is still low when compared with the nation's unemployment rate, which has remained at about 5.1 percent since September, although it went to 5.2 percent in January.
Sometimes the unemployment rate rising can actually be a good sign, said Dennis Delay, an economist and special projects ...