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Article: German jobless total hits four-year high in June, all-time high for eastern Germany
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- AP Worldstream
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- July 9, 2002
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Dateline: BERLIN
German unemployment hit a four-year high for June, official figures
showed Tuesday, highlighting how firms have slashed jobs as Europe'
s No.1 economy sputters and turning up the heat on Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder less than 11 weeks before national elections.
The rise of 7,900 in the jobless total compared to May was too small
to move the rate, which stayed at 9.5 percent. But the new total of
3.954 million out of work was the highest for the month since June
1998.
The figures also showed up the unresolved economic problems of former
communist eastern Germany, where the number of jobless reached 1.394
million, its highest level for June since German ...
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