The League of Iowa Human & Civil Rights Agencies

The nation’s unemployment rate inched down in November, a welcome sign that the economic crisis is waning and fewer people are losing their jobs, the government reported Friday. But the good news didn’t extend to older workers. The Labor Department said the jobless rate fell to 10 percent, down slightly from 10.2 percent in October. For workers age 55 and older, however, the unemployment rate rose to 7.1 percent in November from 7 percent one month earlier.

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