As the recession persisted into 2009, the unemployment rate in the United States rose to ________, the highest rate since the recession of 2001-2002 and the second highest since the Great Depression

A) 5.5 percent B) 9.3 percent C) 17.6 percent D) 25.1 percent


B

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