The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has put into graphic form the Cheney-Bush Recession.
The official rate of U.S. unemployment as of the end of January is 7.6%, meaning 11.6 million people are out of work. The U6 rate, which includes discouraged workers and people forced to work part time because they can't find full-time jobs, is 13.9%, or 21.1 million.
