anchor: we uh our town didn't pass the school budget this year and for the first time in many many years just because people are are in the recession and they're even though we've uh enjoyed very good employment here for the past ten years now we got eight percent uh unemployment when it used to be four or five people are going whoa
positive: Our unemployment rate has jumped from five percent to eight.
negative: Our unemployment rate has been decreasing over the past ten years.