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Quick rise for state’s jobless rate in N.C.

Summary: Major layoffs in manufacturing and business-professional services pushed the state unemployment rate to its highest level in more than 25 years, the N.C. Employment Security Commission said Friday. The December rate was 8.7 percent , a four-percentage-point rise since December, 2007. That compares to the national unemployment rate of 7.2 percent. North Carolina's nonfarm businesses shed ...

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