| Unemployment and How Today’s Students Can Avoid It! 120 days ago by Steve Latter Across Europe, Asia, and the Americas unemployment rates are rising as the global economy is currently in the midst of an economic slow down. For example, in the United States the unemployment rate recently has increased from 5.7% in July of 2008 to 6.1% in August of 2008 which now puts the rate abo ... Welker's Wikinomics Blog - welkerswikinomics.com/blog · Rank: 174,485 · 22 references |