North Carolina and Rhode Island joined a growing list of states whose unemployment rate has reached double digits amid the nation’s worst recession in decades, a government report said Friday.
The U.S. unemployment rate, released earlier this month, rose to 8.1 percent in February, the highest in more than 25 years. Economists expect the national jobless rate to hit 10 percent by the end of the year even if the recession, which began in December 2007, bottoms out.
