"In the strongest employment report since the recession began nearly two years ago, the government said Friday that the nation's employers had all but stopped shedding jobs in November, taking some of the pressure off of President Obama to come up with a jobs creation program." Javier Hernandez, New York Times, December 4, 2009.
Number of Jobs (non-farm payrolls)
Hoven's Index for December 6, 2009
October 2009 unemployment rates for various countries:
Spain: 19.3%.
US: 10.2%.
EU-25: 9.5%.
Sweden: 8.8%.
Germany: 7.5%.
Netherlands: 3.7%.
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