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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Department of Workforce Services says numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show the state's unemployment rate increased to 6.7 percent in December.
November's rate was 6.3 percent and the rate in December 2008 was 4.1 percent.
The department says about 91,200 Utahns were considered unemployed last month, compared to 57,300 in December 2008.
The department says Utah's job count contracted by 2.8 percent over the past 12 months and that 34,700 jobs were removed from the Utah economy since December 2008. Total employment in Utah is just over 1.2 million.
The U.S. unemployment rate was 10 percent in December, unchanged from November's rate.
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