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Jobless rate tops 10 percent for first time since '83

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The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 - and is likely to go higher.

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Oct. 23, 2009

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Oct. 15, 2009

• No cost-of-living increase for Social Security next year

Oct. 12, 2009

• N.C. group among 'Net grant-seekers

Oct. 9, 2009

• President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Democrats look at more relief

Oct. 7, 2009

• Louisiana intensifies probe of ACORN

Oct. 5, 2009

• Top court delays hearing in SC-NC water lawsuit

Sept. 22, 2009

• Senate finance committee starts work on health bill

Sept. 11, 2009

• 9/11 marked with mourning and a spirit of service
• Obama observing moment of silence for 9/11 victims

Sept. 10, 2009

• Sixty S.C. House Republicans call for Sanford to step down

Aug. 31, 2009

• Burr, McCain to address health care at forum

Aug. 26, 2009

• Kennedy called 'singular figure' in America's life

Aug. 21, 2009

• Cash for Clunkers to end on Monday

Aug. 19, 2009

• Freshmen Dems torn by party, voters on health care

Aug. 11, 2009

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

Aug. 7, 2009

• Amid recession US births dropped 2 percent in 2008

July 31, 2009

• Congress trying to save 'cash for clunkers' sales
• Study shows steps being taken to curb overfishing

July 29, 2009

• Lawmakers propose ban on texting while driving
• Obama, in Raleigh, says vote on health-care plan not likely until fall

July 28, 2009

• Witness: Senators knew of VIP status
• N.C. men plotting jihad?
• Authorities believe that anesthetic killed Jackson

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