20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in '09

Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Fri, 01/01/2010 - 13:40

A record 20 million-plus people collected unemployment benefits at some point in 2009, a year that ended with the jobless rate at 10 percent.


 

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