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1.32 million: The number unemployed for that long in December 2007, when the recession began
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GOVERNMENT JOBS AREN'T SO SAFE
49,000: Jobs cut by federal government, partly due to layoff of temporary census workers
4,000: Jobs cut by state governments
1,000: Jobs added by local governments
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WHERE THE JOBS ARE
34,000: Jobs added in the education and health services industries, the only one of seven broad categories to add jobs
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UNDEREMPLOYED
8.9 million: Number of part-time workers who would have preferred full-time work last month
2.17 million: People without jobs who wanted to work, were available and had looked in the last 12 months, but had not looked in the last month.
16.5 percent: Unemployment rate if you include involuntary part-time workers and those without jobs who hadn't looked for work in 12 months , the highest in records dating to 1994
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JUNE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY GROUP
10 percent: Adult men
7.6 percent: Adult women
11.7 percent: Female heads of households
8.2 percent: Asians
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