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People wait in a queue outside the Social Welfare office in Limerick

By Peter Muhly

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People wait in a queue outside the Social Welfare office in Limerick, Ireland, in March 2009. Ireland's unemployment rate surged to 11.9 percent of the work force in June, the highest level since April 1996, as the eurozone nation was hammered by recession, official data showed Wednesday. People wait in a queue outside the Social Welfare office in Limerick, Ireland, in March 2009. Ireland's unemployment rate surged to 11.9 percent of the work force in June, the highest level since April 1996, as the eurozone nation was hammered by recession, official data showed Wednesday.


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