The unemployment rate dropped steeply to 8.4% in March, the lowest for almost nine years, data showed, as people stopped looking for work due to the coronavirus emergency. February's jobless rate was revised down
to 9.3%. Some 27,000 jobs were lost in March compared with the month before, but 267,000 fewer people were looking for work than in the month before.
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