1. US unemployment figures for March showed the jobless rate stuck at 7 per cent.

2. Yet the jobless rate is falling sharply.

3. In November, the jobless rate was 8. 6 percent and analysts predicted little change for December.

4. The jobless rate dropped to 8. 1 percent, the lowest in five years, the Bureau of Statistics today reported.

5. The jobless rate is expected to be an average 8. 25 percent, up from an earlier forecast of 8 percent.

6. The jobless rate for managers and professionals stands at about 2. 5 percent.

7. The jobless rate a month ago was 8. 6 percent.

8. In Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire the jobless rate is three times as high as 1990.

9. The jobless rate, which averaged 9. 5 percent in 1995, is expected to be little changed in 1996.

10. When he left office, the jobless rate was a record 12 percent.

11. During the second week in December, the jobless rate fell by two percent.

12. They were expecting the jobless rate to hold steady.

13. The official jobless rate conceals a surge in long-term unemployment to a postwar record.

14. Summers said the jobless rate in this recession is running about 1 to 1.5 percentage points above what would normally be attributable to a slump of this magnitude.

15. In July Belgium's jobless rate was unchanged at 8.2% of the workforce.

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16. When Prime Minister Jean Chretien took office two years ago, the jobless rate stood at 11. 1 percent.

17. Four years ago, when Ohio voted against incumbent Bush, the jobless rate in the state stood at 7 percent.

18. The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.

19. The White House must placate investors nervous about deficit spending with the political imperative of getting the jobless rate down.

20. Nonfarm payrolls likely increased 85,000 last month, according to a Reuters survey, after rising only 18,000 in June. The jobless rate is expected to hold steady at 9.2 percent.

21. Thus before China's economy started to sputter this summer, its jobless rate was probably only 3 - 4 % .

22. But the labor market is slacker than an 8.3 % jobless rate suggests.

23. But in Greece, an OECD country with the worst ranking on Doing Business indicators, the jobless rate is 10.9 percent.