Eurozone Unemployment Reaches Record High

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The unemployment rate across the eurozone has reached a record high of 11.8 percent.

Joblessness figures released Tuesday by the European Union showed the rate for November 2012 had crept up a tenth of a percent in October of the same year. The report shows nearly 19 million people were unemployed in the countries using the euro currency in November, a rise of some 113,000 people from a month earlier.

The report by the European statistics agency Eurostat also looked at annual figures. It …

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