Friday, April 3, 2009

The return of mass unemployment

The US unemployment rate hits 8.5 percent.

4 comments:

  1. Another stimulus package?

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  2. You can't trust official figures. Take a look at shadowstats.com. US unemployment is closer to 15%.

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  3. Surely obama can turn whiners into workers?

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  4. Only going to get worse too. It's not like the US (or the UK) has remotely-generous unemployment relief. Maybe this will end the illusion that unemployment = moral degeneracy, and get this changed to a more European system (percentage of previous wage).coushang

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