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Article: Job seekers urged to be persistent ; Outlook grim as US unemployment rate reaches 10.2%
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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Competition for jobs in Massachusetts will remain fierce well
into next year, the state's top labor official said yesterday, as
the national unemployment rate soared above 10 percent for the first
time in more than 26 years.
The US unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent last month from
9.8 percent in September, the highest level since April 1983.
Meanwhile, US employers cut jobs for the 22d consecutive month in
October, shedding another 190,000 positions and bringing total job
losses in the recession to 7.3 million.
In Boston, Suzanne Bump, state secretary of Labor and Workforce
Development, told unemployed workers attending a career seminar that
they will need to be patient and ...