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Thu 07 Jul 2009Spain unemployment down 1.5%
Registered unemployment in Spain, which has the highest jobless rate in the European Union, fell for the second month in June as hiring by state-work programmes offset job losses from the worst recession in six decades.
The number of people claiming unemployment benefits fell 1.5 per cent, or by 55,250 people, from the previous month to 3.56 million, the labour ministry said in Madrid today.
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