Businesses cut 190,000 non-farm jobs last month as unemployment reached 10.2%, the highest rate since April 1983, the Department of Labor reported today.
There were 15.7 million people unemployed in October and that represented a 0.4% increase over September's numbers.
The economy has lost 8.2 million jobs since the current recession started in December 2007.
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