The Labor Department says the unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent; 95,000 jobs lost

With the "Recovery Summer" - as Joe the Biden liked to call it - coming to an end as we enter the fall months, the unemployment rate has been above 9.5% for 14 consecutive months making it the longest stretch our nation has had such a high rate since the Great Depression of the 1930's.

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