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How the Government Tallies That Grim Jobless Rate

Yesterday morning, the Labor Department released its grim December jobs report -- 524,000 jobs were lost that month, bringing the 2008 total to 2.6 million and pushing the nation's unemployment rate to 7.2 percent, the biggest since 1993.
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By Frank Ahrens

 
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