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On the recordAugust 2, 2010
The unemployment rate as of January 2009 was 7.7 percent. In August of this year, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent.
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Jim Bunning

Editor's note · Context

Bunning compares current unemployment rates to those from earlier years.

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