2009 starts with the worse unemployment rate in 16 years. The December unemployment rate number is out, and 2009 isn’t looking good.

7.2% unemployment came in for December 2008, the worse in over a decade.
Last year, the total loss of jobs – 2.6 MILLION. That’s the worse since 1945, which lost 2.8 million

Where were the biggest job losses?

Construction 101,000
Manufacturers 149,000
Professional and business 113,000 jobs

The total amount of people unemployed in America in December – 11.1 MILLION!