1. The unemployment rate is down to 4.4%.

2. The unemployment rate is expected to tick down to 4.6%.

3. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5%.

4. The unemployment rate fell to 6.6%.

5. The royal lifestyle has not sat well, especially with Spanish unemployment at 25%.

6. That helped push the unemployment rate down to 6.3 percent, its lowest point since 2008.

7. The unemployment rate was 11.3 percent in May 2012.

8. In 2010 and 2011, the unemployment rate for electrical engineers held at 3.4%.

9. CBO projects the unemployment rate will gradually decrease to 5.3 percent in 2017.

10. It forecast the unemployment rate would fall to 6.3% in 2014 from its current level of 7%.

11. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in May, the lowest level since 2001.

12. In 2012 the unemployment rate was 2.8% and in 2011, 4%.

13. The number of people no longer looking for work becomes a factor in the unemployment figures.

14. The US is also going in the opposite direction on similar programs like unemployment insurance.

15. Yet this potential hire is bringing home more than that via his unemployment benefits.