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Article: France's jobless rate up 0.7 percent in January
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 28, 2006
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France's jobless rate up 0.7 percent in January
PARIS, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The jobless rate in France climbed by
0.7 percent to 9.6 percent, ending nine consecutive months of falling
unemployment in the country, according to data released by the French
Labor Ministry on Thursday.
The figures showed the number of jobseekers after full-time work,
the official barometer of unemployment, stood at 2,326,900 at the end
of January.
People below 25 years old continue to hold on to the highest ...