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    Jobless rate increases to 8.5%; 663K jobs lost

    The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since late 1983, as a wide swath of employers eliminated 663,000 jobs. It's fresh evidence of the toll the recession has infl…


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