The latest grim unemployment numbers from the state show 12.1 percent of Oregonians out of work, or nearly one in eight people.
That’s up from 10.7 percent in February and ties the state unemployment rate from November 1982, the low point of the early 1980s recession. And the numbers crunchers say 12.1 percent is apparently the worst it’s been since 1947, when the Employment Department first started publishing unemployment rates.
A reminder that we do have this contest to channel your recession blues.
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Wow, just wow.
We’re #1, We’re #1, We’re #1!!!
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.
The government should lay off its employees and stop spending money. No economic activity = problem solved.
That photo will never die, will it?
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