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What do the job numbers mean?
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| The nation's job reports released Friday surprised just about everybody. Companies added 32,000 new positions to their payrolls in July, a much smaller increase than most economists expected. The unemployment rate, though, dipped to 5.5 percent. |
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Aug 7, 2004 17:07:01 |
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