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Richmond's unemployed workers did the best they could to shake off yesterday's bad news that the U.S. unemployment rate hit double digits.

They got back to the main task: finding work.

The nation's jobless rate rose to 10.2 percent last month from 9.8 percent. The unemployment rate is the highest in 26½ years.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported the number of people on employers' payrolls fell by 190,000 -- more than economists, who just last week were hailing the end of the recession, had forecast.

Many economist believe the rate is likely to go higher.

"I haven't had an interview -- it's extremely discouraging when you know there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other people out here looking," said Sally Grady, laid off in January after 27 years at now-defunct Circuit City Stores Inc.

"But I'm keeping on. I have a notebook of who I've contacted this thick," she said, hands held about a foot apart.

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