1.   It believes more should have been done to ease the severity of the jobless situation.

2.   The jobless situation is hitting young workers the hardest.

3.   The official numbers probably understate the real jobless situation.

4.   The new factories are usually so highly automated that they make little dent in the jobless situation.

5.   Chen said the jobless situation has spread to the high technology and service sectors as well, unlike last year when joblessness affected just the traditional manufacturing sectors.

6.   Cavallo said private studies taken in late May and June, one month after the official survey, showed the jobless situation had started to improve.

7.   Relatively good weather for January, as well as government-sponsored job creation programs, helped to improve the jobless situation, Labor Office president Bernhard Jagoda said.

8.   The figures show an improvement in the jobless situation across the spectrum of age, sex and race.