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SC jobless figure unchanged for 3rd straight month

By Meg Kinnard
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s unemployment rate remained unchanged for the third month in a row, holding steady at 5.3 percent in June, state officials said Friday.

In a news release, the Department of Employment and Workforce said that the number of unemployed in South Carolina went up by 630 over the last month, to more than 115,500. There were more than 2 million employed people, a drop of nearly 850 since May.

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