Unemployment up: how is the recession affecting you now?

The unemployment rate rose to 6 per cent in the June quarter from 5 per cent in the previous three months, as the impact of global recession continued to hurt the NZ economy.

How are you placed now? Still cutting back spending? Know people out of work and having trouble finding work? Hopeful the worst is over or still worried more bad news is to come?

Tell us your thoughts and stories.

Here is the latest selection of Your Views: