Word: norrbotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Palme won the support of Swedish voters by exploiting growing fears of unemployment. Even though the official jobless rate stands at only 3.7%, Palme contended that it was "moving toward 4% or 5%, a tiny rate in many countries, but one that Swedes won't stand for." In Norrbotten, the region with the highest official unemployment rate in the country (8.5%), the Social Democrats won nearly two-thirds of the vote. Palme also castigated the center-liberal government's program of welfare cuts designed to slow down growing deficits, which contribute to giving Swedes the world...