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Professor says bringing unemployment rate below 9 percent will be “a struggle”
By Marjorie Smith
Published: Aug. 21, 2009

While overall unemployment dropped from 9.5 percent in June to 9.4 percent in July, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased to 4.9 million, up from 4.4 million in June.
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