In 1982, the United States experienced the highest annual unemployment rate since the Great Depression – 9.7 percent …. In principle, that rate is directly comparable to the 8.1 percent seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2009 …, and suggests that current unemployment is still not as bad as it was in 1982. The official unemployment rate, however …

In the current recession, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Unemployment has increased nationwide to levels …

From the early 1990s through the peak of the last business cycle, relatively low U.S. unemployment rates seemed to make … (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other international organizations all praised the U.S. unemployment … shows that in the current economic crisis, the U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries. …

Since the Great Depression, the worst episode of unemployment came in the second half of 1982 and the first half of … 1983. Over that time, the unemployment rate stayed above ten percent from September through June—reaching 10.8 percent of … the labor force in November and December of 1982. A naïve examination of the raw unemployment rates would suggest that the …

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

system of unemployment compensation, with shorttime compensation as an alternative to unemployment compensation. This means …) already have short-time compensation as an option under their unemployment insurance system. In these states a governmental …

recession in 2008. The report finds that such a recession would result in a significant rise in unemployment and the poverty …