11 Jan 2009
Jobless claims overwhelm state offices

Contained herein is a statistic I'd not seen before: the job-loss total for all 2008 was 2.6 million, the most since 1945.

Scary stuff.

The unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent in December.

(link) [Christian Science Monitor]

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Battening Down the Hatches

for the cold snap that's heading our direction. The high today was 32°F - the high on Thursday this week is forecast to be -6°F. We double checked the stock tank water heater, and the line. Piled more straw outside the henhouse and picked up an extra bag of feed.

In another year, I might have complained more about this. But this year, I've been blogging over at Honk & Helen, and have been reading her comments on the weather for this time of year in 1953-54. And it was as changeable then as it is now. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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