WASHINGTON — Friday morning, the Labor Department released its grim December jobs report: 524,000 jobs were lost that month, bringing the 2008 total to 2.6 million and pushing the nation's unemployment rate to 7.2 percent, the highest since 1993.
Unemployment rates: How are they calculated?
Saturday, January 10, 2009 | 2:33 p.m. CST;
updated 5:12 p.m. CST, Saturday, January 10, 2009
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