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Barack Obama finds the surge in US job losses 'sobering'

By Saul Loeb

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US President Barack Obama said the latest surge in job losses was US President Barack Obama said the latest surge in job losses was "sobering," after new government figures pushed the unemployment rate to a new 26-year high of 9.5 percent.


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