Job Searching

My group project is bringing back so many feelings of insecurity that I felt when I was job searching in 2009-2010.  Through hard work and I think luck I found a position, but so many people are still unemployed.  The State of California Employment Development Department states that the rate is 12.4 percent for September 2011, down from 12.9 percent a year ago.  That's still so many people.  It doesn't even begin to touch on the people I know who are underemployed.  I'm thinking the next 5 years are still going to be very bad.