Team Unemployed Reaches Nine Percent

Clearly, unemployment is the new black these days, as Washington's unemployment rate crept up to 9.2 percent in March. The nearly one-percent increase from February came from the 20,000 jobs lost and lack of growth in the state's major industries, making this the first time Washington surpassed the 8.5 national unemployment rate. There is hope--we aren't in the double digits and job seekers can make the best of it with Seattle Job Social, a new schmoozing (and boozing) alternative job resource. Obviously, we prefer the glass-half-full attitude.