If you are referring to US unemployment rate, you may want to look here http://www.wallstreetview.com/unemployment.html

Here’s something on Canada’s unemployment rate last October http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/cf/Qcanada-economy-jobs.RILz_DN7.html

A friend of mine just got back from a trip to Mexico and gave some boost to their tourism industry. If she didn’t have a job here at home and made enough money for a fun trip, this may not have been the case.

SH, if you ever need a job and willing to relocate, I’d recommend Chicago, Illinois. http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/?track=ctjobstab I used to move around from city to city and state to state for work. It wasn’t fun but coming to Chicago made all that worth while. If you don’t mind a few cold days during the winter, you will like it here a lot. Want to build a house here? I’ll design you one at a discount rate. Consider it a “Gunslinger Discount”.