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Unemployment and Employment Rates Both Down in IL
(IRN)-Unemployment continues to fall in Illinois.

It's still no picnic out there, with 9.3 percent of Illinoisans out of work, but that's a drop from 9.6 percent over the last month. The unemployment report was issued Friday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

The state unemployment rate has fallen nine months in a row now. It hasn't been this low in almost two years (March 2009). The Illinois rate is also below the national rate for the second month in a row. That hasn't happened since 2006.

The number of unemployed fell 20,000. Yet there was on overall loss of 9,400 jobs, and there still are 620,000 people looking for work and not finding it.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
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