Economy Unemployment

Manpower Associates' Branch Manager Pam Johnson, left, and Becky Fuller, staffing specialist, discuss candidate job placement in St. Louis, Mo., on Friday, April 4, 2008. Manpower helps candidates find temporary work.(AP Photo/Sarah Conard)

Economy Unemployment

Unemployment brochures are seen on display at the employment training facility, JobTrain, in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, July 30, 2008. The nation's unemployment rate climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 percent in July as employers cut 51,000 jobs, dashing the hopes of an influx of young people looking for summer work. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald Elder Soren Andersen, right, meets with Dan Williams, left, of Highland who was laid off from his job earlier in the week on Friday, November 14, 2008 at the LDS Employment Services center in American Fork. The center saw about 100 candidates each week in the month of October, more than they've ever seen. During the initial interview the center gives information for workshops and websites which are helpful to the job search.

Unemployment rises in metropolitan areas

Stimulus Unemployment Benefits

** FILE ** Unemployed people wait in line at the California Employment Development Department in San Jose, Calif., in this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008 file photo. A bipartisan Senate majority thinks providing as much as six months of extra unemployment checks to more than a million jobless workers is a better way to dig the economy out of a possible recession than just printing tax rebate checks. Some economists agree, and undoubtedly, so do the 1.2 million American workers who face losing an average of $282 a week in benefits before June. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma File)

Unemployed use time for hobbies, family

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Unemployment claims rise above 5 million

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Unemployment reaches 8.5 percent

Unemployment can give parents a teaching opportunity

In this May 3, 2009 photo, Emily, 14, left, looks on while her dad Greg Cramer, 42, works on a crossword with the help of daughter Renae, 16, at their Defiance, Ohio. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)

Rising unemployment accelerates foreclosure crisis

In this photo taken May 22, 2009, Claudia Escobar, of Clifton, Va., left, mends the shoes of her son Tommy Deantonio, 14, at their home in Clifton, Va. The family is faced with foreclosure after Escobar lost her job. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Retailers’ results lead market after wobbly start

A customer tries out a digital camera while shopping at a Costco store Tuesday, March 24, 2009, in Shoreline, Wash., a suburb of Seattle. Consumers increased spending for a second straight month in February even though their incomes slipped due to continuing massive layoffs. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Job security but no advancement from bottom rung

** ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY AUG. 9, AND THEREAFTER ** In this April 30, 2009 photo, Omar Guzman plants strawberries at Samascott's Orchard in Kinderhook, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Among millions of jobless, a few entrepreneurs

Jorge Ocampo speaks in his home office Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, in Portland, Ore. Unlike the millions of people drawing an unemployment check, Ocampo enrolled in a little-known program approved by Congress that gives the jobless the weekly cash benefit but also trains them to run their own business. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Jobs scarce with nearly 6.7M on benefit rolls

In this May 6, 2009 photo, job seekers line-up outside Madison Square Garden for a job fair in New York. The Labor Department said Thursday, May 21, the number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment insurance dropped slightly last week after spiking due to auto layoffs, while continuing jobless claims inched closer to 7 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Jobless benefit rolls post first dip since January

In this photo taken June 16, 2009, Cayla, right, and Marco Bosnich, of Marysville, Wash., hand back completed information sheets as they enter a job fair in Seattle. Cayla Bosnich is unemployed and seeking work and her husband is looking for a better job. The government said Thursday, June 18, 2009, the total number of people on the unemployment insurance rolls dropped for the first time since early January, while first-time claims for benefits rose slightly. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Jobless claims rise; GDP dips at slower pace in first quarter

Jared Tatum attends a job fair Thursday, June 25, 2009, in New York. The Labor Department said Thursday that new jobless claims jumped unexpectedly last week. And the number of people continuing to receive unemployment aid rose more than expected. Tatum, 23, of the Bronx, is looking for a position in customer service. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

565K new jobless claims, lowest level since Jan.

In this photo taken June 16, 2009, Cayla, right, and Marco Bosnich, of Marysville, Wash., hand back completed information sheets as they enter a job fair in Seattle. Cayla Bosnich is unemployed and seeking work and her husband is looking for a better job. The government said Thursday, June 18, 2009, the total number of people on the unemployment insurance rolls dropped for the first time since early January, while first-time claims for benefits rose slightly. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Jobless claims show that U.S. economy remains weak

Rosy Ramirez, right, from Bridgewater, N.J., gets resume tips from Donna Sweiden, left, a career counselor with Career Folk, during a Careerbuilder and University of Phoenix job fair in New York, Thursday July 9, 2009. While layoffs are slowing, jobs remain scarce and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 per cent last month and is expected to top 10 per cent by the end of this year. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Dirty jobs: Everybody has got to do one now

Ronny Purtty, who works as a trash collector for the city's "bulk item" crew, crushes a pile of wood from an illegal dump site, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 in St. Louis. Purtty used to drive an 18-wheeler delivering steel but was laid off last fall. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)

Recovery difficult as jobless rate hits 9.7 pct

Job seekers attend a job fair Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 in Romulus, Mich. The unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since June 1983, as employers eliminated a net total of 216,000 jobs.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Job openings remain close to record-lows

Graphic shows the monthly ratio of unemployed workers to job openings