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Nearly 200,000 people will lose their unemployment benefits in the US this week.

Out of 9 million unemployed in April, 4.7 million had attended college or graduated

Private US companies created 133,000 jobs in May, according to payroll company ADP.

Economists expect the official US poverty rate to rise to 15.2 percent or higher.

Stephen Greene works a street corner hoping to land a job as a laborer or carpenter on June 3, 2011 in Pompano Beach, Florida.

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