US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%

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Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country's unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on…

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Wikinews Shorts: May 22, 2008

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A compilation of brief news reports for Thursday, May 22, 2008. Transport workers in France began a strike on Thursday to protest changes in the state's pension system. Almost 300,000 people…

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Eurozone now officially in recession

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Friday, November 14, 2008 The Eurozone is now officially in a recession, due to the recently released figures showing that, in the third quarter of 2008, the economy shrunk by…

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