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MANCHESTER - New Hampshire's unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage point in February 2010 to 7.1 percent, from the January rate of 7.0 percent, the state department of Employment Security said.
About 70 percent of respondents in a UnionLeader.com poll gave the department "decent" or "good" grades.
MANCHESTER - Phone company's proposal includes converting $1.7 billion of its debt into equity.
CONCORD - Starting Monday, businesses can ready new employees for up to six weeks, as they continue to receive unemployment benefits.
As valuable as anything in the transaction was Daniel Webster's regional accreditation, which is normally associated with the traditional academic culture. An investor said the for-profit ITT Educational Services Inc. could see its $3.8 billion market value grow by 26 percent.
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