When anyone tells you the jobs situation is improving, show them this article.

Update-Tue Jan 13: My concientious colleague RG has brought to my attention that the link above is broken. Unfortunately, it's fallen victim to the growing prevelance of newspapers to move content into "Archives" and thus extort money to read it. I'm not blind and I know paid content is gaining acceptance but I think it's a little fascist to move news into paid content so quickly. It's not like the story's a year old or no longer relevant. And it's not the two dollars I have a problem with -- I just think it's done too fast, without any consideration for people like me, who need a little more time. I changed the URL to a working link at LATimes but I wouldn't pay on principle. Here's a rather detailed summary of the article from CBS.com. And sorry - I forgot the LATimes requires registration. So my apologies to anyone, especially RG, who may have wasted any time here. That was not my intent.