[expat_panama]

"...unemployment figures...   ...the worst economic collapse of my lifetime."

Ah youth.

OK, unemployment is 7.2%.   During Clinton's economic miracle expansion unemployment peaked to 7.4%.  We're fine.

[bronxboy]

10 % in Michigan...but those numbers are cooked-include the people laid of not as recently and you have a best case scenario of 14% and a worse case scenario of 20% in the hardest hit states...the figure is only rising.