Sun Gaddis, right, a career center specialist, helps job seeker …

Rick Bowmer | published: January 9, 2011

Sun Gaddis, right, a career center specialist, helps job seeker Paula Morgan, of Beaverton, who has been unemployed the last nine months Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, at WorkSource Oregon, in Tualatin, Ore. The nation's economy added 103,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months.