The economic picture is coming into tighter focus, and it is grim. Nearly 15 percent of Americans are now unemployed. Twenty million American jobs have been wiped off the books in a single month. That’s the largest one-month drop in US history. Joining me now is The World’s Jason Margolis to help put some of these numbers into a global context.
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