Unemployment rate up to 6.5%

CNN just reported job losses in October were "worse than expected." More from Reuters:

U.S. employers cut payrolls by 240,000 in October, much more severely than expected, while September registered the biggest monthly loss in jobs in nearly seven years, according to a government report on Friday that showed U.S. labor markets were sharply deteriorating.

The Labor Department said the national unemployment rate shot up to 6.5 percent from 6.1 percent in September, the highest since March 1994.

Obama is doing a meeting with his economic advisers today. This economy is a disaster.

I know we all know this but, wow, Bush really made a mess of the country.