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Vice President Joe Biden says a weak November jobs report is "disappointing" and a sign that the economic recovery is fragile.

Extended unemployment benefits for nearly 2 million Americans begin to run out Wednesday, cutting off a steady stream of income and guaranteeing a dismal holiday season for people already struggling with bills they cannot pay.

It could be the Mexican remake of the "The Full Monty" - just swap the out-of-work British steel workers from the 1997 hit movie for curvy Latina flight attendants.

The state added 39,000 jobs to payrolls in diverse sectors. Unemployment is still high in many counties.

Republicans in the House have blocked a bill that would have extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed beyond the holiday season.

With one in every eight workers unemployed and empty state coffers,
California is borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government
to pay unemployment insurance.

The state is borrowing $40 million a day from the federal government to provide assistance to jobless workers, but has resisted changing the formulas it uses to determine and fund those benefits.California's fund for paying unemployment insurance is broke.

Employers added the most jobs in five months, but the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.6 percent for the third straight month.

New claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to a three-month low, hinting at some improvement in the listless labor market.

Schemes that ask for money to set up clients in jobs that never materialize are proliferating, watchdogs say.One in a series of occasional reports about the U.S. unemployment crisis.