Breaking: Unemployment Rate Rises to 10.2%

to add to the list. I just received a phone call at home from the district manager that CHICO's @ The Streets of Tanasbourne in Hillsboro OR. 97124 will be closing their door January 26th 2009. So sad

Brian, you are right on with "Buy American", as well as Wal-Mart driving the prices so low that it forces our manufactures to ship production to other countries. And as is the case with the Fortune 100 company that I work for, to lose shelf space and having to shut down production lines because we will not lower our prices as much as they demand.

Brian, Stop proclaiming that you are a supporter of a Free Market. You sat and agreed with the Ex-Ceo of YES about protectionism. Please expound on your position on how protectionism supports a free market. Free market will create jobs through innovation. The free market will take longer to correct a problem, but once the market makes the correction it will be a long-term solution. Look at the expose on Google for examples of dynamic innovation and job creation.

Jobs will be created through the ability of our companies and businesses to compete globally. The growing price tag our washington wing nuts are placing on the back of employees can lead to only one corporate reaction. Carry the fewest number of employees possible. The unemployment rate in this country is going up. Way up. Thanks Washington!

Re: Guest talking need for manufacturing. Isn't it about time to take off restrictions on nuclear power plant building nationwide to: quell dependence on foreign oil, increase domestic clean energy,put a bunch of laborers to work, etc. It would be equal to the Interstate Highway program and cure several problems.

Brain/Dagen...Leo ,the progressive you just had on....sama,old,same old....Just cut Taxes...Obama doesn't get it...He needs to be blamed for the un-employment...he bot votes w/tax money and promised to create jobs....now nothing because of his progressive grow the government policies

WOW! Funny how unemployment jumps to 10.2 and somehow the market bounces back into positive terratory. What the hell is going on here. There is serious Market Manipulation. Could it be the PPT (Plunge Protection Team) built under Bush and now used by Obama?

Of course we need to get manu going again in America, but that makes too much common sense. You want to get America back on its feet, start buying American products and stop buying this junk from other parts of the World. Our Government does not seem to care too much about the American worker or they would encourage this. It is sad to see such a great nation of hard working decent people get pushed aside in our rush for a global economy. Buy American please.

The real question is, “What is the true Unemployment Rate?” The unemployment rate does not include those that the unemployment befits have run out, people that are not eligible for unemployment befits, people that just stop looking, homeless people, etc.