US Unemployment at 10 Percent
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Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
This month, President Obama held a jobs summit to deal with widespread unemployment. Also, the Labor Department announced that the US unemployment rate in November was 10 per cent. VOA's Martin Phillips went to the unemployment office in lower Manhattan where people who have lost their jobs sign up for unemployment compensation. He talked to people about how they are coping.
