What's the highest unemployment rate we've seen over the last 40 years?

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readytoretire answered a question in Economics.
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readytoretire answered 9 months ago …

From the chart of BLS data, it appears that it was about 9.8%, back in the early part of 1982. The next winner was 8.5% in 1976.

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