11 Jan 2009
Jobless claims overwhelm state offices

Contained herein is a statistic I'd not seen before: the job-loss total for all 2008 was 2.6 million, the most since 1945.

Scary stuff.

The unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent in December.

(link) [Christian Science Monitor]

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