The Scourge of Unemployment

Abstract

The latest unemployment figures make grim reading. They show that as of mid-February, 5.7 million American workers were jobless. This is 7.7 percent of the civilian labor force. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the proportion is 6.8 percent.

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