Jobless rate hits 5 percent, 2-year high

Saturday, January 5, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sluggish hiring in December drove unemployment up to a two-year high of 5 percent, and the Federal Reserve announced a new move to ease the credit crunch.

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