The hard figures released by the Labor Department last Friday, may look cold and impersonal. And Wall Street may be able to thumb its noses at it for a day or two.

But the half-million-plus stories of frustration, pain and even panic that they conceal couldn’t be more important:

• In January, U.S. companies told nearly 600,000 people to pack up and go home.
• A mind-numbing 626,000 filled out initial applications for unemployment benefits — a 26-year high.
• The official unemployment rate has now exploded to 7.6%, the worst in more than 16 years.
• Nearly 11.3 million American workers have lost their paychecks.
• And these are just the most narrowly defined, official numbers. They exclude millions of jobless Americans who have given up looking for work or are employed only part time. Moreover, they’ve been candy-coated to portray the employment picture in the most favorable possible light.

Many experts — such as economist John Williams of Shadowstats.com — say the real unemployment rate is twice as bad, between 14% and 15%.

But These Are Just the Numbers. Don’t
Forget the Human Face Behind Them!

For every one of those unemployed workers, this crisis is intensely personal: Disappointment, humiliation, dependence; the death of dreams and the birth of new nightmares.

Worse, now, there’s a real question as to whether or not state governments will be there for the unemployed.

So many people have filed for unemployment benefits that seven states have already emptied their unemployment-insurance trust funds and another 11 states could run out of money for benefits by year’s end.

In South Carolina, for instance, the state boasted more than $600 million in its unemployment trust fund a decade ago. Today with official unemployment at 20% in some counties, the fund has gone broke.

Other states are facing even larger financial challenges.

A Big Impact on Your Investments

Unemployment in America is the single most reliable indicator of the economy; and the economy is the single largest driver of investment performance.

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