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Senate Moves School Vouchers Forward

By Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, April 22, 2004.

The Senate has narrowly passed a plan to create vouchers for elementary school-aged students.

If approved, the measure would ultimately provide vouchers to 14 thousand students.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports.

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Unemployed in NH and Nationwide Are Undercounted

By David Darman on Thursday, April 22, 2004.

There were about 30,000 first time unemployment claims around the nation last week.

That's 4 times greater than U.S. Labor Department officials expected.

In New Hampshire, the official unemployment rate is the same as last year, about 4.2 percent.

But neither the state nor the national unemployment rate includes people who've stopped looking for work, because they've been jobless for so long.

New Hampshire Public Radio's David Darman has more.

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