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Home | News | Maryland unemployment rate rises to 7.5 percent in December

Maryland's unemployment rate increased from 7.3 percent in November 2009 to 7.5 percent in December 2009, according to The Baltimore Sun. Employers reportedly cut 8,700 jobs.

About 220,000 Maryland residents actively were looking for jobs last month and were not hired.

Still, Maryland's unemployment rate is better than the national unemployment rate, which was 10 percent in December 2009.


1/26/2010

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