Peak Oil Financial Crisis: "Unemployment Rate Bolts to 8.5%, 663,000 Jobs Lost in March, " By Jeannnne Aversa, Associated Press, April 3, 2009

"If part-time and discouraged workers are factored in, the unemployment rate would have been 15.6 percent in March, the highest on records dating to 1994, according to Labor Department data released today."

"It's fresh evidence of the toll the recession has inflicted on America's workers, and economists say there's no relief in sight."

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