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Below The Beltway: Unemployment Rate Reaches 10.2%, Highest Level Since April 1983
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Unemployment Rate Reaches 10.2%, Highest Level Since April 1983
Below The Beltway —
The Space Shuttle Challenger had just made it into orbit for the first time.
Michael Jackson’s Beat It was rising up the Billboard charts, and would hit No. 1 by the end of the month.
Harold Washington was elected as the first black Mayor of Chicago.
And unemployment was at 10.2% just as it is today:
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 ...
Hey America, Welcome to my World!
Political Byline —
Just wanted to be nice about it.
Welcome to my World!
Via The Old Grey Lady:
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.
While the pace of job losses has slowed significantly since the peak of the recession last winter, the unemployment rate, which measures the number of people actively seeking work, continues to climb, and economists do not foresee relief until well into next year. ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Strategic Reassurance, we hardly knew ye.
Vulnerable freshman Democrats abandoning ship on health care.
Apparently they learned the wrong lesson from the Deeds Disaster in Virginia.
Oh wait, two more Dems just bailed on the health care vote.
Hoyer isn't sure they have the votes yet, the vote may get pushed to Sunday or next week.
ACORN offices raided by the police, Hannah Giles not found.
10.2 percet unemployment = success beyond their "wildest dreams"
Frank Rich: It's the Big Banks, Mr. President
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
... The system is going back to the way it was with a vengeance, against a backdrop of despair. As the unemployment rate crossed the 10 percent threshold at week’s end, we learned that bankers were helping themselves not just to ...
Arianna Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Which makes one wonder: what level of unemployment would it take to unmix them? Even 10.2 percent, the highest level in 26 years, after 22 straight months of job losses, doesn't seem to have quickened the pulse of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner. ...
