Do you really think that the unemployment rate is rising?

If so, in which sector? Yet, if you look at Craigslist, under the job link, there are job openings every single day.

Do you really think that the unemployment rate is rising?care credit

We *know* it is....

A 6% jump in just December (from 4.7% of the country to 5.0%). Also, there are 13% more unemployed than 1 year ago.

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

The number of unemployed persons increased by 474,000 to 7.7 million in December and the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage point to 5.0 percent.

A year earlier, the number of unemployed persons was 6.8 million, and the jobless rate was 4.4 percent.

In December, unemployment rates rose for several major worker groups--adult men (to 4.4 percent), adult women (4.4 percent), whites (4.4 percent), and Hispanics (6.3 percent). The unemployment rates for teenagers (17.1 percent) and blacks (9.0 percent) were little changed. The unemployment rate for Asians was 3.7 percent, not seasonally adjusted. Most major worker groups experienced increases in their jobless rates over the year.