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Wa Unemployment Rate Slightly Higher

(Olympia, WA)  --  Washington's unemployment rate is slightly higher.  The state Employment Security Department says the jobless rate in November was six-point-two percent, up from six percent in October.  The increase happened despite an estimated 68-hundred new jobs being created from October to November.  Officials say there was an increase in the number of new job seekers entering into the labor market's civilian workforce

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