Posted on 10/28/2009 10:09:38 PM PDT by UAConservative
MONTGOMERY | Alabama has earned a spot on a Top Ten list it didn't want.
For September, Alabama had the 10th highest unemployment rate among the 50 states. It also recorded the nation's third-fastest growth in unemployment for the past year.
The director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama said moving into the worst 10 states for unemployment has psychological impacts, particularly for the unemployed who have been looking for work and are on the verge of giving up.
'It has a dampening effect on morale,' Sam Addy said Tuesday.
Alabama's unemployment rate of 10.7 percent for September was the state's highest in 24½ years. August's rate of 10.3 percent was 12th worst among the states.
(Excerpt) Read more at tuscaloosanews.com ...
Thank You Obama!!!
I wonder what the break down by race is?
Nevada (up 6.0 percentage points) and Michigan (up 6.4 percentage points). Those are also the top two states in unemployment, with Michigan at 15.3 percent and Nevada at 13.3 percent.
YEAH WE BAD WE KNOW IT
WE GOT STAT TO SHOW IT
WHAT YOU GONNA DO
DANCE DA BOOGALOO
Look from south of Tuscaloosa County to Mobile County called the “Black Belt.” An overwhelming percentage of these counties (Wilcox, Dallas, Marengo, etc.) are 60% black or more. Nonetheless, the recession has led to a significant diminution of jobs in rural counties across the board.
http://www2.dir.state.al.us/LAUS/map.pdf
Also some of the counties that ACORN visited last year to register voters and resurrect the dead.
Thanks,not the change they were looking for huh?
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