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Unemployment reaches new record in Palmetto state



10:10am   5/22/09

South Carolina's unemployment has set a state record, with the jobless numbers for April reaching 11.5 percent...That's up from 11.4 percent in March...

The numbers released today broke a 26-year-old record....

Here in the upstate, Greenville county had the lowest unemployment at 9.5 percent while Union county had the highest at 20.5 percent...

Here is a rundown of county by county in the upstate:

Greenville 9.5
Pickens 9.6
Laurens 10.9
Anderson 11.6
Spartanburg 11.6
Oconee 14.0
Abbeville 14.3
Cherokee 16.9
Union 20.5

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