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Unemployment Rate Tops 10% in 16 States

HeadlineJul 20, 2009

In other economic news, the official unemployment rate is now over ten percent in sixteen states. In Michigan, the unemployment rate has surpassed 15 percent, the first time any state has hit that mark since 1984.

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