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He said the president still thinks the jobless rate will rise above 10 percent this year before it improves.

The Bank of Japan forecast two years of deflation and Japan's jobless rate jumped to a four-year high of 4. 8 percent in March.

A few brave officials are beginning to sound warnings that the jobless rate is likely to "stay high" .

It could take months or even years of above-trend economic growth to get the jobless rate back to its longer-run trend.

As the output slump sends Germany's jobless rate towards double-digits, it is hard to see consumers going on a spending spree.

The euro-wide jobless rate is up by less than a third, compared with a doubling across the Atlantic.

The jobless rate, which stood at a low 4. 9 percent a year ago, has jumped a full percentage point over just the last three months.

Thursday, U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the nation's jobless rate will be "unacceptably high" for a long time.

In Spain the building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds in a year, to 14. 8% in January.

Struggling small businesses do not bode well for a swift fall in the jobless rate either .

The White House must placate investors nervous about deficit spending with the political imperative of getting the jobless rate down.

The figures surprised many economists who were expecting a slightly lower jobless rate, and a bigger gain in the number of jobs.

The jobless rate is likely to remain elevated as an improving labor market lures discouraged job seekers back into the labor force.

Political analysts say bad economic news is to blame, especially the recent tick up in the jobless rate to 9. 1%.

Although the jobless rate across the bloc rose only slightly, there were significant differences in individual countries.

"The jobless rate is going to continue to rise, " said Bernard Baumohl, managing director of the Economic Outlook Group.

Unlike the United States, Japan's jobless rate is only 5. 3 percent, historically high but just over half its American counterpart.

In the early 1980s the jobless rate rose from 5. 5% of the labour force before recession started to 11. 9% three years after it had ended.

If he is lucky, the economy may have turned decisively in time for re-election, though the jobless rate will remain critical to the outcome.

Spain, whose economy is barely growing and where the jobless rate is 20%, would love to have America's problems.

The U. S. Department of Labor on Friday said the May jobless rate was 8. 9 percent, the highest level since 1983.

In Germany, where the jobless rate is lower than in 2008, people tend to think the crisis is about lazy Greeks and Italians.

With a jobless rate of 10. 2% and oodles of idle capacity, America still faces a bigger threat from deflation than from inflation.

For instance, the U. S. government issues a broader jobless rate that shows much higher levels than the one more commonly quoted.

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie says many Americans blame Mr. Obama for the high jobless rate.

The U. S. jobless rate is 9. 4 percent, and is expected to remain higher than usual for some time.

The jobless rate is now the highest since the end of 1996, six months before Labour won power.

Even 18 months into the crisis, the country is close to full-employment with a jobless rate of just 2. 7 percent.

France is readying a bill to cut the workweek and introduce flexi-time working, in a move to pare the jobless rate.

The official jobless rate conceals a surge in long-term unemployment to a postwar record.

Some economists have far gloomier outlooks, predicting the jobless rate will reach 11 percent, as the country slides towards recession.

Generally speaking the target of the macroscopic economic policy is to control below 3% the inflation rate and jobless rate at 5%.

The improvement, which brings Germany's jobless rate down to 10. 6 per cent, is the latest positive economic news out of Germany.

The male jobless rate is pumped up by white collar banking jobs lost during the global financial crisis.

The jobless rate is expected to remain around 10 percent for most of this year, which is close to a 26-year high.

In its budget in February the Obama administration expected a jobless rate of 8. 1% for the year.

That scenario is worse than the current state of the economy, in which the jobless rate is below 9 percent.

Even so, "the jobless rate was still expected to decline slowly and to remain elevated at the end of 2012, " the minutes said.

The jobless rate rose as high as 10. 8 percent in late 1982, just as the recession ended, before inching down.

It was the third consecutive quarter the jobless rate had risen.

The jobless rate has already exceeded that figure, and may climb higher when new numbers are released on Friday.

As job growth picks up, these workers could re-enter the labor force, keeping upward pressure on the jobless rate.

How high could he hike the short-term interest rate to slow the economy when the jobless rate is so high?

The jobless rate, however, is not expected to budge from around 9. 6 percent, where it has been stuck for several months.

President Obama's advisers have been overly optimistic about the jobless rate.

Unemployment is expected to rise even as the economy recovers: the jobless rate is now at 9. 8%, a 26-year high.

By that estimate, the jobless rate is at its limit.

The jobless rate, using a broader definition of those looking for work, rose to 6. 1% of the labour force.

The president says November's lower jobless rate is encouraging, but not good enough.

Yet the jobless rate is broadly stable, at 10. 1%, rather than falling as it should with growth above trend.

U. S. employment grew solidly for a second month in March and the jobless rate hit a two-year low of 8. 8 percent.

Data from Eurostat, the European Union's statistical agency, show Spain had a jobless rate of 40. 5 percent in May for people under 25.

U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the nation's jobless rate will be "unacceptably high" for a long time.

Less than six years after hitting 10. 8%, the post-war record, in 1982, America's jobless rate was close to 5%.

If sidelined workers were counted in the official statistics, the jobless rate today would be 9. 8 percent.

Unemployment is once again the voters' biggest concern; the jobless rate reached 8. 6% in February, well above the European Union average.

It is the third month in a row that the jobless rate has fallen, with February's figure marking a near two-year low.

Given the current woes, the jobless rate could rise to as high as 8. 5 percent by the end of next year, some analysts predict.

The high jobless rate is seen as a catalyst for high levels of crime.

The official jobless rate is still hovering around 25%, though the real one is probably nearer 40%.

Unemployment is a major problem, with the official jobless rate climbing to 25. 2 percent at the end of March.

Instead, the jobless rate is now at 9. 5%, despite the $787 billion stimulus passed earlier this year.

Australia's jobless rate, at 5. 1 percent in September, is about half the level of unemployment in the U. S. and euro zone.

His reasoning is that it will encourage employment at a time when the jobless rate is on the rise.

The jobless rate has remained near 10% despite the strengthening recovery.

Over 4 million jobs have been lost since the recession began and the jobless rate has already hit a 25-year high of 8. 1 percent.

Employment jumped by 175, 000 in the most recent three months (to November) compared with the previous quarter, and the jobless rate fell.

The U. S. jobless rate is likely to push well above 8 percent by mid-2010 and may even top 9 percent, Prakken said.

The jobless rate ticked up in August, from 9. 5% to 9. 6%.

But in Greece, an OECD country with the worst ranking on Doing Business indicators, the jobless rate is 10. 9 percent.

The labour department said the jobless rate jumped to 7. 2%, the highest level since 1993, from 6. 8% in November.

But, the jobless rate remained stuck at 9. 6 percent, and the president says more work is needed.

While the jobless rate held steady last month, other measures of unemployment grew darker.

the jobless rate and the nation's gross domestic product.

The slow economy is really a burden on the jobless rate now.

The official jobless rate was 9. 5% in July, and would be higher still had many people not given up searching for work.

For the first time eastern Germany now has a lower jobless rate than California.

Unemployment started to rise again, returning to 2. 5m and a jobless rate of 7. 9%.

The U. S. is forecast to grow just 1. 4% next year, a pace that could push the 9. 1% jobless rate higher.

The jobless rate rose for 15 months after the end of the 1990-91 recession when battered banks were reluctant to lend.

The U. S. jobless rate hit 9. 5 percent in June, the highest in almost 26 years, but on other measures the labor situation is even weaker.

Thus before China's economy started to sputter this summer, its jobless rate was probably only 3-4%.

The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.

Such resilience is why the jobless rate fell to 4. 4% in October, its lowest since 2001, and why both wages and hours worked grew smartly.

Fully 89 percent of young Latinos think a college degree is essential, while the jobless rate for Latino graduates has spiked.

The official jobless rate, at 9. 7%, is a fiction and should be treated as such.

The US Labor Department said Friday that the October jobless rate jumped to a 26-year high of 10. 2% from 9. 8% in September.

A government report last week showed the nation's jobless rate held at 9. 1 percent in September.

In 2007 America's jobless rate was 4. 6%, compared with an average of 7. 9% for the OECD's European member countries.

Workers born in Spain have a jobless rate of 18. 1%, whereas nearly 30% of immigrants to the country are out of work.

Workers born in Spain have a jobless rate of 18. 1%, whereas nearly 30% of immigrants to the country are out of work.

But people with a bachelor have a jobless rate under 2%.

And America's 10. 2% jobless rate is arguably an underestimate of labour slack.

The unemployment rate for all workers is 4. 5%. But people with a bachelor's degree have a jobless rate under 2%.

Private payrolls that exclude government agencies also gained more than forecast, while the jobless rate held at 9. 6 percent.

It's a wonder the jobless rate isn't even higher than it is.

The country added 26000 jobs as the jobless rate fell to 4. 4 percent, its lowest since December 1987, Statistics New Zealand said.

So far this year the jobless rate has been 5. 82 percent, nearly double the 2. 99 percent recorded as late as in 2000.

At just 4. 9 per cent, Japan's jobless rate is low by international standards.

Millions lost their jobs, lifting the jobless rate to 10. 8%.

The jobless rate is well below the level that is consistent with stable prices.

In the third quarter, the Bronx's jobless rate was 13%, the institute said.

Output is now expected to rise by 2% in 2010 (compared with 3. 2% in the original budget), while the jobless rate peaks at 10%.

Our survey of 1, 500 youth found that the self declared or perceived jobless rate was even higher, at 35 to 40 percent.

The jobless rate dipped marginally in December to 6. 5 per cent.

Despite the expected sharp drop in employment, the jobless rate probably only rose a touch to 9. 6 percent from 9. 5 percent in July.

The jobless rate held at 9. 6 percent, where it's been since August.

But because of the massive slack in the labor market, they expect the jobless rate to fall only to 9. 3% by December.

The jobless rate has already reached 9. 4 percent.

The country added 26000 jobs as the jobless rate fell to 4 . 4 percent .

The jobless rate rose to 8. 1 percent in January, the highest since March 2005, the Federal Statistics Service said yesterday.

The landscape is not uniformly bleak. Germany, for example, now has a lower jobless rate than before the financial crisis.

At 20. 3 percent, Spain had the highest jobless rate in the euro region in July.

Half don't see the jobless rate returning to 5. 5%, roughly full employment, before 2015.

In 1958, Republicans lost 47 seats after the jobless rate rose steadily from 4. 3 percent to 7. 5 percent close to the election.

The economy returned to slow growth in the second quarter but still suffers a record high jobless rate and record deflation.

The jobless rate was 4. 2 per cent at the end of 2005.

America's jobless rate was 9. 5% in July (figures for August were released on September 3rd, after The Economist went to press).

But July job cuts were revised upward, while the jobless rate jumped to 9. 7 percent, a fresh 26-year high.

Germany's jobless rate could rise to 10. 5 percent from 7. 8 percent, he added.

A blue-collar city of 273, 000 people, Windsor now has the highest jobless rate in Canada (14. 4%) and faces an uncertain future.

The average jobless rate between 18-29 years was nearly 20% last year in OECD countries, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

Any job creation is welcome news, " Boehner said. " But the jobless rate in our country is still unacceptably high.

The jobless rate is now above 10%, its highest for over ten years, compared with 7. 5% in Germany and 8% in Britain.

The annual jobless rate in the metro area was estimated at 11. 3 percent last year.

Hong Kong's jobless rate has dropped. It is the first time in the year that the unemployment rate is below 5%.

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