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| Slate on the economic fallout |
| 2001-10-05 |
The WSJ relays "the most graphic report yet" of how widespread the economic fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks has been: initial claims for unemployment insurance rose 71,000 (to 528,000), more than double what Wall Street had been expecting. The paper quotes an economist predicting that the U.S. unemployment rate--which was at 4.9 percent in August--will hit 6 percent early next year. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |