Jobless figure 2nd-lowest in 5 years

... levels. "There's been an improvement in the layoff situation," Guy Berger, an economist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Conn., said before the report. "The problem is that it doesn't seem like the hiring part of the equation has gone anywhere. ...

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