Or to put in another way: Nine point five percent ! Bad humor, but in all seriousness at the end of the day there’s no good way view this. That’s the highest unemployment rate we’ve seen since August 1983, as the US economy shaved another 467,000 jobs in the month of June. Unemployment is considered a lagging indicator when it comes to the economy: the unemployment rate could be rising as the fundamentals of the economy are being repaired. Plus, jobs always come back once the economy h