December 5, 2008
Unemployment over the years
It actually has been worse.
Chart comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can make your own here.
Of course, we don't know what happens to the line off the right side of the graph. You can't tell above, but it's headed up pretty steeply. Check out today's report.
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