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Although the United States began to emerge from a deep recession in late 2009, the nation's unemployment rate remained at its highest level since the mid-1980s.
Click here to read about the shifting patterns and underlying dynamics of U.S. unemployment, in Postwar America: An Encyclopedia.
Click here for a chronology of unemployment in U.S. history, in Social Issues in America.