Unemployment rate, Brandon Dodd, Rene Torres

M. Spencer Green / Associated Press / July 2, 2009

Brandon Dodd, right, listens to Rene Torres, a recruitment associate with the Social Security Administration, at a career fair in Oak Brook, Ill. Employers nationally cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5%.