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The Unemployment rate as of February 2009 was at 8.2%. It has only risen 1.8% since then, and seems to have stabilized.
Hopefully the long-term trend will continue and it will start going down in the next quarter.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
Also note that the Unemployment rate increased from 4.7% in the last quarter of 2007 to 8.2% in February of 2009. An increase of 3.5%.