Unemployment in USA will be the largest in 60 years

This graphic shows it the unemployment situation in Oregon from January 2000 to March, this year. The unemployment rate is about swift approaching the levels of 1982, the highest since records began to take these in March 1947.
The unemployment rate reached 12% in March, one of the largest increases in the country from 5,9% recorded in June last year. In these last nine months unemployment has risen steadily since the closure of many industries such as construction.
The date of recent months are approaching the peak of the recession of 1982 and since the historical records before 1976 are not fully comparables, it seems very clear that this 12% is the highest in the last 60 years, when the Department of Employment began to publish the figures.