If you're out of work and interested in moving abroad, now is the time to do it.
Why? Because, according to Anne Lowrey at Foreign Policy, there are significantly better places to be unemployed than the U.S.
From contributor Eddie Lakin
As a husband and father of two young children, maintaining my health insurance during my unemployment is a high priority. My wife works part time and so isn't eligible for her employer's group plan.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the national unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 percent last month, its highest total in 25 years. The economy has now hemorrhaged more than 4.4 million jobs since the recession started in December 2007.
Amy Rynell from the Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty joined the call-in on 848 this morning.‚ She passed on this very helpful resource.‚
According to a new analysis of Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, the recession is‚ "having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics."