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Unemployment Drops Again, Is the Economy Finally Warming Up?

America's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in almost two years, 8.5 percent, and this time it's not because more people gave up on looking for work. It appears tens of thousands actually got new jobs. Sudeep Reddy reports for the Wall Street Journal and blogs for Real Time Economics.

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

America's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in almost two years, 8.5 percent, and this time it's not because more people gave up on looking for work. It appears tens of thousands actually got new jobs. Sudeep Reddy reports for the Wall Street Journal and blogs for Real Time Economics.

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