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Highest Percentage On Record

By JEANNINE AVERSA

The proportion of people jobless for six months or more has accelerated in the past year and now makes up 46 percent of the unemployed. That's the highest percentage on records dating to 1948. By late summer or early fall, they are expected to make up half of all jobless Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25662.htm



US jobless claims in surprise rise

New claims for jobless insurance benefits in the United States rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, the government said Thursday on concerns unemployment may derail the "economic recovery".

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_jobless_claims_in_surprise_rise_06172010.html


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Congress Takes Long Weekend, Lets Jobless Benefits Hang

David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers: "Congress headed home Thursday for a four-day break, after failing again to extend jobless benefits for an estimated 325,000 people, fund summer jobs for at-risk youths or help newly laid-off people pay for health care."

http://www.truth-out.org/congress-takes-long-weekend-lets-jobless-benefits-hang60348



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