Original sentence: 3.8 million Americans lost their jobs in 2009.A flood of inexpensive consumer goods from China has recently encountered criticism from Europe, the United States and some African countries.Latvia had the highest unemployment rate in EU at 22.3% for November 2009.Officially, Detroit’s unemployment rate is 27%, but the Detroit News suggests that nearly half of this city’s working-age population may be unemployed.The closing of the monasteries in the 1530s increased poverty, as the church had helped the poor.The fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and Adolf Hitler's rise to power, which culminated in World War II and the deaths of tens of millions and the destruction of much of the physical capital of Europe, is attributed to the poor economic conditions in Germany at the time, notably a high unemployment rate of above 20%; see Great Depression in Central Europe for details
Edited sentence: A flood of cheap consumer goods from China have recently encountered criticism from Europe, the United States and some African countries.Latvia has the highest unemployment rate in EU at 22.3% for November 2009.Officially, Detroit’s unemployment rate is 27%, but Detroit News suggests that nearly half of this city’s working-age population may be unemployed.The closing of the monasteries in the 1530s increased poverty as the church had helped the poor.The fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and Adolf Hitler's rise to power, which culminated in World War II and the deaths of tens of millions and the destruction of much of the physical capital of Europe is attributed to the poor economic conditions in Germany at the time, notably a high unemployment rate of above 20%; see Great Depression in Central Europe for details.While 3.8 million Americans lost their jobs in 2009, 1.1 million immigrants were granted legal residence over the same time period