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Unemployment worse than expected

Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 11/06/2009 8:34 am
WASHINGTON, DC (AP) -- The unemployment rate tops 10% for first time since 1983.

Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs and employers cut a net total of 190,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department says.
  
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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