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Posted: 4/8/2013 9:43:40 AM EST
In this photo taken on March 29, 2013, Elena Baptista, right, prepares a meal with her daughter Vania, 12, left, and son Joao, 7, in their house's kitchen/living room in Loures, outside Lisbon. The Baptista family counts itself among the casualties of an unrelenting financial crisis that is squeezing the life out of some European Union economies, including Portugal. Pedro Baptista, a stocky 37-year-old, has found work as a part-time window cleaner but his wife Elena, 35, has been on unemployment benefit for almost a year after losing her job in a school canteen. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Posted: 4/8/2013 9:43:40 AM EST
In this photo taken on March 29, 2013, Elena Baptista, right, prepares a meal with her daughter Vania, 12, left, and son Joao, 7, in their house's kitchen/living room in Loures, outside Lisbon. The Baptista family counts itself among the casualties of an unrelenting financial crisis that is squeezing the life out of some European Union economies, including Portugal. Pedro Baptista, a stocky 37-year-old, has found work as a part-time window cleaner but his wife Elena, 35, has been on unemployment benefit for almost a year after losing her job in a school canteen. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 6:03:23 PM EST
Chart shows the U.S. unemployment rate
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Posted: 4/5/2013 6:03:23 PM EST
Chart shows the U.S. unemployment rate
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:53:28 PM EST
Specialist John McNierney, right, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:53:28 PM EST
Specialist John McNierney, right, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:53:28 PM EST
Trader Neil Catania, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:53:28 PM EST
Trader Neil Catania, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:26 PM EST
Trader Michael Bercovici, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:26 PM EST
Trader Michael Bercovici, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:26 PM EST
Traders Patrick Casey, right, and Randy Beller work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:26 PM EST
Traders Patrick Casey, right, and Randy Beller work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:26 PM EST
Trader Michael Bercovici, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:26 PM EST
Trader Michael Bercovici, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:25 PM EST
Trader Timothy Nick, center, works with Geoffrey Friedman, right, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 12:03:25 PM EST
Trader Timothy Nick, center, works with Geoffrey Friedman, right, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 9:43:25 AM EST
In this Friday, March 29, 2013, people line up outside a restaurant in front of a help wanted sign in Richmond, Va. The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose to a four-month high in the week ending March 30, 2013, although the increase partly reflects seasonal distortions around the spring holidays. The Labor Department says weekly applications increased 28,000 to a seasonally adjusted 385,000. That is the highest level since late November. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose to 354,250. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 9:43:25 AM EST
In this Friday, March 29, 2013, people line up outside a restaurant in front of a help wanted sign in Richmond, Va. The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose to a four-month high in the week ending March 30, 2013, although the increase partly reflects seasonal distortions around the spring holidays. The Labor Department says weekly applications increased 28,000 to a seasonally adjusted 385,000. That is the highest level since late November. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose to 354,250. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 3:33:34 PM EST
Workers from the bus factory of Portuguese automakers group Salvador Caetano, protest at the factory gates against the temporary suspension of work covering 98 workers for a period of six months Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Official figures Tuesday showed that unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has struck 12 percent for the first time since the currency was launched in 1999.(AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 3:33:34 PM EST
Workers from the bus factory of Portuguese automakers group Salvador Caetano, protest at the factory gates against the temporary suspension of work covering 98 workers for a period of six months Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Official figures Tuesday showed that unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has struck 12 percent for the first time since the currency was launched in 1999.(AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
