Europe suffered from double-digit unemployment and generated almost no additional jobs for seven long years, from 1993 until June 1999.
Worse, it has gone up two points among blacks, who still suffer double-digit unemployment.
The country paid a price: double-digit unemployment and a severe recession.
The goal is to cut double-digit unemployment in inner-city neighborhoods.
There is little industry, double-digit unemployment, low crime and one of the highest National Front votes in the nation.
It also warned that double-digit European unemployment could create a long-term strain.
Persistent double-digit unemployment reflects the seasonal nature of farm labor.
Germany's double-digit unemployment, which had finally begun to decline slightly, jumped from 10.2 percent, to 10.9 in December.
It has an overregulated economy with high taxes and double-digit unemployment, but is also one of the world's most productive countries.
Duhalde focused on promises to combat the recession and double-digit unemployment.