A man was standing at a corner, with a hat in each hand, waiting for handouts. A passer-by stopped and dropped a coin in one hat, then asked, "What's the other hat for?"
The unemployment rate dipped to 8.6 percent but it was a hollow improvement caused by over 300, 000 people dropping out of the work force, giving up looking for a job, waiting at home for more government handouts which will no doubt be coming soon with great fanfare about how the government is helping the unemployed in a tough time.