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Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be

MSNBC.com: Business  Sun, 11/08/2009 - 12:43

Donald Schenk has been out of work in the current downturn, as he was in the early 80s when unemployment last hit 10 percent.<br /><br />He says times are harder now.It hurts more now to be unemployed than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent, what with higher rates of indebtedness, less than half the savings and ballooning health costs.


 

Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be

Newsvine - business  Sat, 11/07/2009 - 11:22

It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.


 

What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent

Newsvine - business  Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:51

Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.