The price of bread was rising and the cities saw high unemployment.
"The economy has improved, yet we are seeing high unemployment in the district," he said.
In the last 3 years we have only seen unemployment over 9% for months on end.
Most forecasters see unemployment continuing to rise from its current level of 5.7 percent for at least the next few months.
When the industry began to see increased unemployment in the early 1970s, Scortia decided to try his hand at full-time writing.
It sees unemployment rising from 8.3% now to 8.7% in 2012.
The early 2000s saw increased unemployment and an aging population.
Would we like to see unemployment going in the other direction every single month?
On the other hand, we've seen increasing unemployment over the past 20 years.
The people of Europe see unemployment as the main challenge and expect us to do everything possible to combat it effectively.