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What Happened to Jobs?

03/20/10 Stockholm, Sweden – Reuters reports today that January unemployment rates increased in 363 US metro areas… and nearly 200 of them had rates exceeding 10 percent.

The unemployment freight train has perhaps found the brakes, but it’s nowhere near coming to a stop.

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  1. Silver Bully said

    To quote the Cohen bro’s movie Raising Arizona:

    “You’re young and you got your health, what you want with a job?

    on March 20, 2010.

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