
Joblessness is becoming worse by the day. December 2009 alone resulted in 85,000 jobs being axed and over 500,000 individuals left to find work in a scant job market.
An even more depressing fact is that the unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent but not because there weren't people being laid off or fired. Nay, it was because so many people stopped looking for work and are technically not counted as unemployed.