Thanks!
But, but, don’t you realize we are in a recovery???
** OBAMA SAYS SO !!!! **
For whatever anecdotal evidence is worth?
My guess- from walking and talking on the street, here on the coast, is one in five out of work. Usually after going through several other jobs. Among young black folks? More like half out of work. It’s grim. And it’s not getting any better, either.
Clickable links
State map:
http://data.bls.gov/map/servlet/map.servlet.MapToolServlet?survey=la&map=state&seasonal=u
Are you just adding all the counties’ rates and dividing by 159, or are you taking the population of the counties into account? Fulton County alone has about 1/10th of the state’s population, and the Metro Atlanta area is over half of the state’s population.
You can have high unemployment in the sparsely populated counties, and relatively lower unemployment in the Atlanta metro, and have the per capita unemployment be closer to the low end of the scale.
The figures don’t add up, because they were “adjusted”, and of course a large number of people have exhausted all benefits. Keep in mind that the guy who controls that is a dem running for Governor, so I wouldn’t believe anything coming out of his department.
The government unemployment rat is nothing but a political tool to be manipulated for their own purposes.
It doesn’t include self employed or casual labor type workers.
The majority of workers in the residential building industry are not eligible for unemployment benifits, and thus are never considered “unemployed”.
More than half the small building contractors and laborers I know of are out of work as there is no activity in the residential building/remodeling industry.