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Unemployment rate tops 10 percent for first time since 1983; 190,000 jobs lost in October

By Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 - and is likely to go higher.

Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. The Labor Department said Friday that the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. August job losses were also revised lower, to 154,000 from 201,000.

Sullivan County's September jobless rate was 9.2 percent. In Kingsport the September rate was 9.4 percent. The city-county unemployment data for October is scheduled for release on Nov. 25.
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