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The unemployment rate has reached it's highest point since 2020.
Figures just out from Stats NZ show the jobless rate climbed to 5.1 percent in the three months to December.
It rose from 4.8 percent in the previous quarter.
The last time it topped 5 percent was September 2020.
RNZ business editor Gyles Beckford joins Kathryn in the studio.
