While the country waits to see what will happen with the bailout bill in Congress, today the government released sobering unemployment statistics for September.
The unemployment rate held steady at 6.1 percent. Last month the economy lost jobs in construction, manufacturing and retail, but added jobs in health care (no surprise there) and mining.
The unchanged rate won’t do much to ease people’s anxiety about their job security. In the most recent Yahoo! HotJobs site poll, 60% of respondents said they were “extremely worried” that the current U.S. economic crisis is a direct threat to their jobs.
| Q | How worried are you that the U.S. financial crisis is a direct threat to your job? |
| Extremely |  60% |
| Modestly | 20% |
| Barely | 8% |
| Not at all | 12% |
| 5612 Votes to date |
Bright side: At least the unemployment rate didn’t rise.
