This story does a great job explaining the breadth of businesses and workers affected by the current economic downturn. The information has obviously come from the Post's original research and not a press release or major report. Doesn't jump to any conclusions. Excellent sourcing, especially for a somewhat shorter article.

Informative report about the weakening employment outlook, based on factual evidence from multiple sources with a broad range of perspectives.

By exploring many angles to job insecurity and unemployment, this piece goes beyond the numbers to paint a picture of the job market in America right now. Great use of sources across geography and industries.

This is a well written and well sourced article presenting both data and anecdotes that demonstrate that an inflection point was recently reached in the rate of job losses as they accelerated in the souring economy. Anecdotal evidence is presented to show that economic uncertainly not just tight credit is having an influence.

Irwin and Rosenwald give a good, hard look at the employment prospects across a broad cross-section of economic sectors: All look bleak, and all substantiate other related pieces about worker underemployment, consumer confidence falling, retail sales slumping, and an entire economy with a bad case of heebeejeebees.

I think this article is much better than Slate's "The really, really bad news about the unemployment rate. " It seems more informed, more respectable and has better journalistic qualites!