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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
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Unemployment up but not as high as Treasury predicted

Bank economists say it is nowhere as bad as feared.

Brent Edwards Wed, 04 Nov 2020

Unemployment rose more quickly during the three months the end of September than in any other quarter, and is now 5.3%.

In the June quarter unemployment rate fell to 4%, but in the September quarter 37,000 more people became unemployed, bring the total number of unemployed to 151,000. The

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Brent Edwards Wed, 04 Nov 2020
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