Finland"s unemployment rate jumped to 8.2 percent last month, the highest October rate in six years, the government statistics agency said Tuesday, , according to AP. In October 2008, the joblessness rate was 5.8 percent and in September this year it was 7.3 percent, Statistics Finland said. Unemployment in Finland, which had been on a gradual 10-year decline, began an upward climb a year ago. It peaked at a 10.9 percent in May. In October 2003, it was 8.3 percent. The latest figures mean that last month 215,000 people were out of work in a population of 5.3 million _ up from 155,000 a year earlier, the agency said.
