But this year, the figure will probably climb to about 15 percent.
By 1988, the figure climbed to 64 percent, a higher level than in most other cities.
But at the end of the 1990's, it climbed to 37 percent.
State unemployment has just climbed to 5 percent for the first time in three years.
By 2002, that percentage must climb to at least 50 percent.
Since then, the rate has climbed 13 times, to about 7.5 percent in August.
In the past 10 years it has climbed to around 18 percent.
It would climb to 13.4 percent in the following 16 years.
By last year, that number had climbed to 41 percent.
If Congress enacted the program, the report said, growth would climb to 2.2 percent.