nakedcapitalism.com - 1/21/2009
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Further confirmation of deteriorating economic conditions in China come via its latest employment release. Note that China's unemployment rate is its "urban" rate, which does not include migrant workers, so real unemployment is certain to be higher. In addition, the level officially projected ...
businessweek.com - 1/25/2009
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businessweek.com —
SACRAMENTO California's unemployment rate jumped to 9.3 percent
in December, capping a tumultuous year of massive job...
losses and a housing slump that has struck most of the country. The jobless rate announced Friday by the state Employment Development ...
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California unemployment rate jumps to 9.3 percent
online.wsj.com - 1/28/2009
bloomberg.com - 1/20/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- China’s official urban unemployment
rate jumped for the first time since 2003 and...
may climb to an almost 30-year high as exports slump and a slowdown deepens in the world’s third-biggest economy. Registered unemployment rose to ...
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China Faces Worst Unemployment in Decades as Slowdown ...
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Chinese Unemployment Projected at 30 Year High
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Some more bad news ahead of tomorrow's Chinese GDP release. Bloomberg (hat tip Naked Capitalism) reports : China’s official urban unemployment rate jumped for the first time since 2003 and may climb to an almost 30-year high as exports slump and a slowdown deepens in the world’s third-biggest economy. A rate as high as the government’s 4.6 percent target for this year, which was announced by Yin today, would be the worst since 1980, official data show. Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday that the government must do more to preserve social ...
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