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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
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) | yesterday
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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Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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The Bridge (Free subscription) | yesterday
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) | yesterday
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) | yesterday
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) | yesterday
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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Mickey's Musings (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports this morning that Oklahoma's unemployment rate jumped to 7.1% in October. Furthermore, the BLS revised upward the September rate to 6.8% (from a previous value of 6.7%). Consequently, the glimmer of positive news from the September report that had previous shown a decrease in the unemployment rate, has now been extinguished. With this month's data
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The Kansas City Business Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Missouri’s unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in October, down from 9.3 percent in September but up from 6.3 percent in October 2008, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.
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Money & Company (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
California's unemployment continued its upward march in October, reaching a post-World War II high of 12.5%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this morning. But don't roll your eyes at the never-ending stream of bad news just yet. California actually...
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If you need evidence government is ballooning out of control, while the rest of the country sinks, look no further than the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment numbers put out today. Over the last 52 weeks, nonfarm employment decreased in all 50 states and increased only in Washington D.C. (Note the unemployment percentage is climbing in D.C., but that's because more are moving here to get on
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The unemployment rate in the U.S. state of Illinois rose from 10.5 to 11 percent in October, the highest level in the state in more than a quarter of a century, according to a report released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) Thursday. IDES reported that the figure, which was calculated after seasonal adjustment, hit a new high since August 1983. While the ratio in October 2008...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
California unemployment increased to 12.5 percent last month, but the state actually added jobs for the first time in more than a year. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said California payrolls grew by 25,700 in October, the first job growth the state has seen since April 2008. California was one of 28 states recording job growth. The unemployment rate grew three-tenths of a percent, to 12.5 percent....
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The Washington Business Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Unemployment rates edged up in Maryland and D.C. and stayed the same in Virginia last month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It seems the Utica-Rome area is weathering the recession better than other communities nationwide, newly released unemployment figures show. But whether the area’s 7.3 percent unemployment rate for October is good news or bad, depends on how you look at it.