The US Labor Department released January 2009 figures. They said the unemployment rate rose to 7.6% and over 3.6 million jobs were lost since December 2007 . More than half those jobs were lost the past three months.
The number of people that have been out of a job for more than 15 weeks has increased 26% from September 2008:
That group makes up the bulk of the unemployed:
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