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UK unemployment rises increases to 4.8%, highest since 2016

by Danica Kirka
| November 10, 2020 12:15 AM

LONDON (AP) — U.K. unemployment rose to its highest level since 2016 in the three months through September as the COVID-19 pandemic forced employers to shed workers, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday.

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