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Text size [+][-]  Wednesday March 17 2010GLOBAL EDITION

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05 Feb 2010 19:50

January effect

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The drop in the headline unemployment rate to 9.7 pct is not what it seems. Other data were revised to show an extra 1.2 mln people -- 8.4 mln in all -- have lost their jobs in this downturn. Seasonal tweaks may have been overdone, too. The recovery is still worse than jobless.

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