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WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brand new figures released early Friday morning show Alabama's unemployment rate has reached a new high.The new report from the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations shows that jobless rate in October
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Spotlight on Statistics: Thanksgiving Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics What activities do you have planned for this Thanksgiving? Perhaps cooking and enjoying a meal with family or friends, playing sports or watching sports on television, doing volunteer work, or shopping? Here’s a look at some BLS data behind those Thanksgiving scenes.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A shrinking labor force and about 1,000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at 6.9 percent, a slight decrease from the previous month, the state Department of Labor and Employment said Friday.
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SteamboatPilot.com stories (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Routt County’s unemployment rate increased from 5.9 percent in September to 6.1 percent in October, according to figures released Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The figure hasn’t been adjusted for normal seasonal changes.
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The Bridge (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- OCTOBER 2009(Data Released on November 20, 2009) Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed or higher in October. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 13...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Texas economy threw off mixed signals in October, with expanding payrolls but a rising unemployment rate.Employers boosted payrolls by a preliminary count of 41,700 jobs last month – a significant piece of good economic news after a year of nearly uninterrupted monthly job losses.But the unemployment rate edged up to 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent in September, the Texas Workforce Commission...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed – that’s including those involuntarily working part-time and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. The above interactive...
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Philip Greenspun's Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Bureau of Labor Statistics's more inclusive U-6 unemployment rate is at about 17.5 percent (source). This does not include "discouraged" workers, so the real proportion of the expected-to-be-working population that is unemployed is probably 20 percent or more. More relevant is the number of Americans with jobs: 138 million ...
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Mile High Delphi (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
We here at MHD felt that just looking at the increases in Colorado State's unemployment rate during the Ritter years, and during the years since 2005 when the Democrats took control of the Colorado State Legislature for the first time in forty years, is rather unfair. A better measure of how any party is dealing with the macro environment in Colorado would be to compare Colorado's unemployment rate...
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Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The good news is that with the highest unemployment rate in the country, Michigan still beats out Number Three Rhode Island. The bad news is that they also beat us on a positive front. Paragraph four of the possibly over-optimistic...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
The London Times (UK) puts the spotlight on Detroit, Michigan, USA, a liberal-Democratic-controlled city that has had socialist impulses for some time and that's been in decline for decades (hat tip: Drudge Report ). "Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary — it reached 70 earlier this year — is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on the people of Detroit....
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Who Hijacked Our Country (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
As well they should. So what if Detroit’s unemployment rate is 28% and climbing, and a house in Detroit probably costs less than a new car. Quit whining! If Detroit residents weren’t so wrapped up in their own petty problems, they’d be more mindful of those needy Wall Street executives . It’s bad enough when an individual doesn’t notice something in the fine print and...
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Herbal Medicine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, due to the economic climate it seems that more people are under deeper stress than before. Life is definitely tough sometimes but with the US unemployment rate at or over ten percent, many believe the true number is higher, individual stress levels appear to be increasing. So, what are some simple things we can do [...]
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Rapidly rising double-digit unemployment rate — otherwise widely known as the "Obama recovery". ( Bloomberg ) -- California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida registered record rates of unemployment in October as weakness in the labor market stretches from coast to coast and limits the economic recovery. Joblessness rose in 29 U.S. states last month compared with 22 in September,...
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Subprime Blogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you are unemployed and need cash for the holidays there are options for you. There’re many bad credit lenders out there who are now offering unemployment loans. Several years ago you would’ve never heard of this type alone but with the unemployment rate well above 10% and is now the case that these lenders [...]