Published January 28, 2009, 12:00 AM


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Terronda Clarke, 40, of Columbia, S.C., uses the computer at the Employment Security Commission office in hopes for finding employment Tuesday in Columbia. South Carolina's unemployment rate bolted to 9.5 percent from 8.4 percent as laid off factory workers find it difficult to move into different types of jobs.

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