French unemployed at 25-year low
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy gets a boost as the jobless total falls to 2.2 million - the lowest since June 1982.
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NEW YORKFewer Americans lined up to claim first-time jobless benefits last week but analysts said the modest decline said very little about the current state of the labour market.
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The ranks of Americans filing  initial claims for jobless pay shrank by more than expected  last week to 323,000, government data showed on Wednesday,  while continued claims fell to a 3-1/2 year low in more good  news for the U.S. labor market.
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The French unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent of the workforce in July, its lowest reading since March 2002, from 9.0 percent in June, the employment ministry reported.
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New applications for unemployment  benefits fell by 22,000 last week, but the number of workers  remaining on jobless aid rose to its highest level in more than  two years, government data on Thursday showed, pointing to a  weakening labor market as the economy slows.
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Unemployment in Australia sinks to the lowest level since 1978, giving a further boost to the re-elected government of John Howard.
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Five years ago, France joined Europe's largest nations in a radical experiment: to try to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and improve the quality of life by having existing employees work shorter ...
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The French newspaper industry faces job cuts and losses as circulation figures plummet.
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U.S. employers added just 146,000  jobs in January, the government said on Friday in an  unexpectedly weak report on the labor market, but a drop in  job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in  more than three years.
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The number of Americans who can't find employment creeps higher.
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Unemployment has risen slightly in France, despite the efforts of the French government to bring it under control.
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WASHINGTON  - The queue of newly jobless Americans shrank last week, providing a dose of good news to the labor market. The number of new claims for unemployment benefits tumbled 25,000 to a seasonally
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Germanyâs unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 15 years in September, dropping to 8.4 percent.
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The majority of people in Scotland do not want to work past the age of 65, a study shows.
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U.S. employers added just 146,000 jobs in January, the government said on Friday in an unexpectedly weak report on the labor market, but a drop in job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in more than three years.
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France's growth rate may fall short of government forecasts in 2005, crimped by slowing exports and consumer spending, the national statistics office said.
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.