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Jobless rate hits 8.5 percent

The Labor Department announced 663,000 jobs were cut last month, bringing the total number of jobs lost during the recession to 5.1 million. Speaker: John Silvia, chief economist, Wachovia Conway Gittens reports from New York.

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