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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Censorship coming
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:35:11 -0800

New numbers came out today. California's number, using the "new and improved" method of calculating unemployment, is 11.6%. Up here in Can't-Get-Here-From-There, the "new and improved" rate is 17.3%.

The largest over-the-month decrease in the level of employment occurred in California (-66,500), followed by Texas (-40,600), Ohio (-33,000), and Michigan (-31,300).

Michigan again reported the highest jobless rate, 15.2%, in June. (The last state to have an unemployment rate of 15% or higher was West Virginia in March 1984.) The states with the next highest rates were Rhode Island, 12.4%; Oregon, 12.2%; South Carolina, 12.1%; Nevada, 12%; California, 11.6%; Ohio, 11.1%; and North Carolina, 11%. The Nevada, Rhode Island, and South Carolina rates were the highest on record for those states. Florida, at 10.6%, Georgia, at 10.1%, and Delaware, at 8.4%, also posted series highs.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>>

Not here in my area. Unemployment seems to be getting worse as more
stores and businesses close. There are still pages and pages of
bankruptcies and foreclosures in the paper and yet no real jobs
advertised-only the work at home scams. Now, having said that, I can
say that in the relatively new neighborhood where my folks live, there
were about 8 empty houses, now there is only one. I think that is due
to special loans and the first time buyer program that Obama promoted.
I personally don't view home sales as a sign of economic recovery,
especially if that is due to special financing. The housing crisis came
to be because of 'special financing', so having more houses occupied
just doesn't spell 'recovery' in my book.

There is a town, down in middle Georgia, where a large KIA plant is due
to open. KIA has created a lot of jobs and the little town of West
Point is calling itself KIAville and has become somewhat of a boom town,
getting lots of media attention. Surrounding areas are riding KIA's
coattails, too.

Georgia has an average 10.1% unemployment for June, up from 9.6 in May.
They say that we will be at 12% or more statewide before the end of
the year. I live in one of the worst areas of my state for jobs. I
looked on the GDOL website and I see that Atlanta is at 9.6% and the
Dalton area is at 12.6%, down from about 14.8 in March as you can see on
this bar graph.

http://www.dol.state.ga.us/pdf/pr/lf_dalton.pdf





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