There was also a drop in the number of people on long-term unemployment assistance.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Still,the unemployment rate stayed at nine and six-tenths percent for the third month.

VOA: special.2010.11.06

The unemployment rate reached a twenty-six year high in October.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Unemployment is at twenty-six year highs.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

"We can't celebrate a 10 percent unemployment rate, especially the long-term unemployment continues to grow in very troubling numbers,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Unemployment in the 27-member EU is expected to reach 11.5 percent by 2010 - the highest level since World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

"And that cost-cutting is resulting in higher unemployment, and of course the higher unemployment is creating lack of demand.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports unemployment reached its highest level among industrialized nations of 8.5 percent in July.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

But the point-one percent jump in the unemployment rate from May was more modest than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Indications that unemployment continues to rise is grim news for leaders heading to the G-20 summit in the United States next week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Mr.Orban has yet to unveil details on how he wants to finance his economic plans, which include reducing unemployment from a 17-year high.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

The cumulative total of Americans receiving unemployment benefits has reached new record-highs in each of the past 10 weeks, and now stands at 5.73 million.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

While the unemployment rate is rising, the pace of layoffs has slowed from early this year, when nearly three-quarters of a million jobs were lost in January.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

In an area where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the unemployment rate has risen above the national average, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass a new job-creation bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

And particularly labor market numbers, unemployment, and unemployment lags recovery - so even when an aggregate recovery starts, those numbers are not going to turn around immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Clinton said Haiti leads the Western Hemisphere in unemployment and infant mortality, yet the Caribbean state's future is by no means hopeless if it receives properly-targeted international support.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

That is our basic challenge now,". Geithner says it will take some time to bring down unemployment levels, which in October reached a 26-year high in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

With U.S.unemployment near double digits, Cardillo cautions the Obama administration to tone down its rhetoric against Wall Street - something political analysts say is unlikely with U.S.mid-term elections only months away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"The U.S.data should remind us that this recovery is not likely to be V-shaped It seems to me that we are going to see rising unemployment for a long time yet,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

"I am particularly concerned by the long duration of unemployment faced by a great number of workers, and the disruptive impact that this long-term unemployment has had, and will have on these workers and their families.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"He is at 50 or below in most surveys, and that is mainly because of the economy, which continues to be stubbornly weak, the unemployment rate is very high and still in double-digits, and as a consequence Obama does not have much margin for error,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.06