Job Cuts
May 7 2009, Byron Clark

New Zealand’s unemployment rate is now 5.3%, the highest in 6 years. The latest Household Labour Force Survey shows 115,000 people out of work but still actively looking as of the end of March. Social development minister Paula Bennett says the...

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