Jobless picture continues to worsen

WASHINGTON - Week by week, the numbers that measure the economy get worse, heading toward uncharted territory. The Labor Department reported yesterday that the percentage of the workforce receiving unemployment benefits reached a 25-year high in mid-January. Moreover, the raw numbers were the highest since the government started keeping records in 1967, although the workforce was much smaller then.

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