The Labor Department released September unemployment figures today, and as expected unemployment was up once again in the month.

The currently unemployment level is now running at 9.8%, highest since June 1983.

With an additional 263,000 additional job losses during the month, the total number of Americans out of work now sits at 15.1 million, and gives further evidence that the recession continues to inflict pain.

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