Unemployment hits 11.9 percent in Eugene-Springfield
Unemployment hit 11.9 percent in the Eugene-Springfield area in January, according to numbers released a day after the county's largest employer in the manufacturing sector terminated 2,000 employees.
Unemployment could peak at 11% at the end of 2009 and possibly at 11.5% in the first months of 2010, analysts interviewed by MTI said, commenting on the latest unemployment figures on Thursday.