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Data: 01-08-2003 05:40
News > Economy
Jobless rate down to 6.2%
But employers unexpectedly cut 44,000 workers from payrolls.
August 1, 2003: 8:32 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - U.S. unemployment fell in July, the government said Friday, even though employers cut thousands of jobs from payrolls, defying expectations that payrolls would grow.
The unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent from 6.4 percent in June, the Labor Department said. Economists, on average, expected the rate to fall to 6.3 percent, according to a Reuters poll.
Non-farm payrolls fell by 44,000 jobs, the report said, after losing a revised 72,000 jobs in June. Economists, on average, expected payrolls to grow by 18,000 jobs, according to Reuters.
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