The new unemployment numbers are out and nothing has changed - which is bad. Unemployment is still at 9.1% with no new new jobs for August. Catherine Rampell in the New York Times Economix blog posted the following graph that shows this to be the longest and worst recession of the post-war period. Maybe we should follow Ken Rogoff and stop calling it a recession and instead call it the "Great Contraction".
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