Guest Commentary Will Obama's support among youth vanish?
Posted: August 15, 2009 at 4:42 a.m.
My usual mind-set in life is typically optimistic, but I see the most recent unemployment data posted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and it gives me pause. The latest unemployment figures show the jobless rate has risen to 9.7 percent - an increase of 4 percent over the 2008 figure for the same month. Further, the jobless rate for the youngest workers is at an all-time high - 27.8 percent.
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Opinion, Pages 4 on 08/15/2009
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