From: FT.com on Wed, May 05 2010 8:55 PM

The total number of people out of work continued to rise sharply at the end of last year but failed to top the 2m mark as widely expected according to official figures published on Wednesday. Andrew Taylor, employment correspondent, talks to Daniel Garrahan about how high unemployment could get.

From: FT.com on Wed, Feb 17 2010 9:21 PM

Against expectations, the US economy lost jobs in December, but November was a brief respite from US employment losses, says Alan Rappeport