Look Ma! My Very Own Unemployment Rate!
The New York Times (NYT) recently published an interesting interactive chart on their site. The chart is entitled “The Jobless Rate for People Like You”, and NYT hopes you will use it to check out your very own unemployment rate (OK, the unemployment rate for people in your demographic). Not sure why you’d want to [...]
States With the Lowest Unemployment
Unemployment is still reasonably low in these 11 states, making them good bets for job-seekers. States With the Lowest Unemployment North Carolina – 4.2% Nebraska – 4.9% South Dakota – 4.9% Utah – 6.0% Iowa – 6.5% Wyoming – 6.5% Oklahoma – 6.5% Montana – 6.7% Vermont – 6.8% New Hampshire – 6.8% Virginia – [...]
The European Job Market
On a recent flight, I spoke with a woman named Meryl, who was, like so many, lamenting losing her job and wondering aloud what to do next. We were both on our way to Maui–me for R&R, her for a friend’s wedding. My seatmate shared with me that she was considering chucking it all and [...]
Job Losses Down, Unemployment Up
According to this month’s Labor Department jobs report, employers cut 539,000 jobs in April, that’s the lowest number of cuts in six months. Unfortunately, the unemployment rate bounced to 8.9%, a 4.5% increase over last month. There are now 13.7 million people unemployed, 3.7 million of whom have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. [...]
13.2 Million Unemployed, And Counting…
Well, by now you’ve heard that the unemployment rate has reached a panic-inducing 8.5%. The Department of Labor’s March Jobs Report is mostly bad news, showing a total of 663,000 jobs lost, 13.2 million unemployed, 9 million people forced to work part-time for “economic reasons” and an 20-week average duration of unemployment. The report went [...]
States With Fastest-Growing Unemployment
The national unemployment rate is rising faster than any of us might like, but in some states it’s rising even faster. The following states saw their unemployment rates increase by at least one percentage point in a single month (Nov. 2008-Dec. 2008). STATE % INCREASE DEC 08 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Indiana (+1.1) 8.2% South Carolina (+1.1) [...]
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