Unemployment Rate Hits High

Published April 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT

New government figures show that more people are out of jobs now than just after Hurricane Katrina. Madeleine Brand discusses the numbers with Michael Mandel, chief economist for BusinessWeek.

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