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Unemployment rate hits 10.2% in October
Unemployment rate hits 10.2% in October
Alert Email Print By Rex Nutting , MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 10.2% in October, topping the 10% mark for the first time in 26 years, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls dropped by a seasonally adjusted 190,000 in October, ...
U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years
U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years
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October Job Losses Accelerate Again – 10.2%!
October Job Losses Accelerate Again – 10.2%!
michaelscomments.wordpress.com — The economic for October predictions were 175,000 non-farm jobs lost, and an unemployment rate at or just... below 10%. Just based on initial unemployment filings, I think you’d have had to count on people continuing to drop out of the system to ... (more) October Job Losses Accelerate Again – 10.2%!
Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.2%, Offering Little Reassurance to Job Seekers
nytimes.com — Job seekers at a recruitment job fair conducted by Prudential Financial in New York this week.... (more) Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.2%, Offering Little ...
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The Morning Wrap
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times — Jobless : The U.S. unemployment rate reached 10.2% last month, topping the 10% mark for the first time in 26 years. See Market Watch for more of the numbers breakdown. Fort Hood : An Army doctor is in custody after going on a violent rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. Investigators say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people and injured another 28 at the military post. He is in stable condition at a hospital after being gunned down by police at the scene. ...

Unemployment Rate Jumps to 10.2%; AP Reports 'Economy Is Rebounding'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The October unemployment rate has just been released and it has jumped to  double digits at 10.2%, the worst rate since 1983. Any higher unemployment rate would make this the worst recession since the Great Depression. So how is the Associated Press reporting the growing unemployment numbers? "The economy is rebounding." I kid you not. ...

Unemployment: 10.2%
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timelyWhere are my green shoots? The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 10.2% in October, topping the 10% mark for the first time in 26 years, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls dropped by a seasonally adjusted 190,000 in October, bringing to total number of jobs lost in the recession to 7.3 million. It was the 22nd straight decline in payrolls. Large losses were seen in manufacturing, construction and retail. Health care and temporary-help agencies added jobs. 10.2% is not, I repeat, is not a good number.

John Hawkins: Seven Lowlights From Obama's First Disastrous Year in Office
TownHall Latest columns — ... ." In fact, the Obama Administration said that if the bill passed, they expected it to keep unemployment below 8%. Instead, unemployment hit a 26-year high of 10.2% in November. 2) Pyrrhic "victory" on health care: In one of the most nauseating displays of government "sausage making" in American history, the Democrats have used open bribery to push a wildly unpopular health care bill through both the House and the Senate. The Democrats are willing to trade tax increases, increased premiums, Medicare cuts, government-financed abortions, taxpayer-funded care for illegals, ...

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Unemployment Rises To 10.2%, Highest In 26 YearsTalkLeft
NYTimes : The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, the Department of Labor said Friday in its monthly economic appraisal. U6 rose to 17.5% . Relatedly, Paul Krugman writes ...