I know it's human to turn these issues into stories, but: One partner has been laid off, the other fears the same. This implies an unemployment rate that is,

I know it's human to turn these issues into stories, but: One partner has been laid off, the other fears the same. This implies an unemployment rate that is, at a minimum, twice that of the Great Depression at its worst. If we hit 10% unemployment, we're still at 90% employment -- the majority of us will have jobs (that don't pay as well as we'd hoped, that don't move along as fast as we'd like).