Big Jobless Picture Bleaker Than 7.2% -- Beneath the Numbers Lies Hard Truth
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › January 12, 2009
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7.2 percent.
The headline unemployment rate for December is the number every TV newscaster, economic blogger and talk-radio host focused on when the government released its latest employment report Friday. That rate, the highest in 16 years, translates into 11.1 million Americans without jobs.See the full content of this document
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Big Jobless Picture Bleaker Than 7.2% -- Beneath the Numbers Lies Hard Truth
But 7.2 percent doesn't capture how many people are out of work. By another measure - from the same emp...
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