Britain's unemployment rate has plunged to 4% — a level not seen in more than 40 years
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The rate of unemployment in the UK fell to just 4% between April and June this year, the lowest level since comparable records began in the early 1970s, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, published on Tuesday morning.
The ONS said that the UK's unemployment rate, those not in work but who want a job, dropped from 4.2% over the previous period.
There were 1.36 million unemployed people in the UK over the three months, the ONS said, down 65,000 from the previous data period.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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