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jtuck004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:01 PM
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Interesting map of unemployment 1948 to present

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/05/07/broader-u-6-unemployment-rate-increases-to-171-in-april/
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county worker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:14 PM
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1. geez, from 2006 to 2010 we went from 4.4% to 9.9%
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 04:34 PM
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3. Everything the Bush Administration touched turned to shit.
Only complete fucking idiots think otherwise.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 12:46 PM
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2. Wow, in 1953 it got down to 2.5%
That was back when "Full Employment" was official government policy.
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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 10:44 AM
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4. Interesting.
Especially when looking at this page for context: http://www.biography.com/presidents/pres_chrono_order.jsp
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jtuck004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-10 12:11 PM
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5. Thank you for that. n.t.
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