[Texas Fossil]

Here are the numbers from BLS:

Unemployment rate, May 2008-May 2009

May-2008 5.5%

Jun 5.6%

Jul 5.8%

Aug 6.2%

Sep 6.2%

Oct 6.6%

Nov 6.8%

Dec 7.2%

Jan-2009 7.6%

Feb 8.1%

Mar 8.5%

Apr 8.9%

May 9.4%

These are the “admitted numbers” probably reality is somewhat higher for various reasons.

Some estimate total real unemployment is in the neighborhood of 15%

[Reeses]

From BLS the number of newly unemployed jumped 40% from April to May 2009. If McCain had won that would have been the headline.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Dec. 2006, the last time we had a GOP President and Congress - 4.5%.

[ruination]

Here's a graph that Team Obama made up to sell the spending plan to the public in January. It was a supposed projection of unemployment rates, with and without the spending plan. This blogger added on the unemployment rates that actually happened.