Unemployment rate increases to 7.1 percent (South Carolina)

The Miami Herald ^ | Thu, Mar. 31, 2005 | Associated Press

[Willie Green]

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Job losses in manufacturing helped push South Carolina's unemployment rate to 7.1 percent in February, the Employment Security Commission reported Thursday.

The rate was up from 7 percent in January, and the change gave the state the third-highest jobless rate in the country behind Alaska and Michigan. Nationwide, the unemployment rate increased to 5.4 percent in February from 5.2 percent a month earlier.

The state added 6,700 new nonfarm jobs in February. More than half the gains were in state and local government .......

[sanchez810]

They need a Taxpayers Bill of RIghts.

[econ_grad]

More than half the gains were in state and local government

OMG. Doesn't this state have a Republican governor?

[maestro]

WalMart to build giant 'Pyramids' throughout the new country called 'NAFTA'......millions put to 'work'.....

[dirtboy]

Talk about a misleading headline. Makes it seem like the national unemployment rate is 7.1 percent.

I'm sure it was accidental...

[SoDak]

Holy Cow, 7.1%...In my working lifetime I've never seen unemployment above 3% in SD.

[Willie Green]

Talk about a misleading headline. Makes it seem like the national unemployment rate is 7.1 percent.

It's a regional headline.
If you read the article, it also mentions that the national unemployment rate also increased.
Other variations of this story state "Michigan's February jobless rate highest in nation", "Texas unemployment creeps higher or "US initial jobless claims increase"

[COEXERJ145]

Which of course makes you as happy as can be. The more bad news, the happier you become.

[spanalot]

"Talk about a misleading headline. Makes it seem like the national unemployment rate is 7.1 percent."
It's a regional headline.
If you read the article, it also mentions that the national unemployment rate also increased.

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I hear what youre saying but I think there is a big problem with the disapearance of manufacturing in this country.

[Pusterfuss]

Talk about a misleading headline. Makes it seem like the national unemployment rate is 7.1 percent.

"We're not happy until you're not happy."

[bert]

Maybe some will migrate to East Tennessee where the rate is below 5% and those 5% are unfit to hire. Jobs for people who are educated and will actually come to work go begging.

Local industries have jobs vacant since as long ago as November 04 an (it's true)July 2004.

[Willie Green]

but I think there is a big problem with the disapearance of manufacturing in this country.

I totally agree.

[Matchett-PI]

Misleading headline.

You - like the mainstream media - lose credibility with those capable of critical thought when you deliberately slant things to suit your ludricrous Chicken Little, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! We're all gonna die!! mindless squawking.

[Kimba]

I'm in western NC...what kinds of jobs?

[ARCADIA]

More than half the gains were in state and local government OMG. Doesn't this state have a Republican governor?

Both major parties are converting the US from a nation of capitalistic pursuit to a purely socialist state. It is easier to control an electorate when you own all of the resources.

[spanalot]

"Talk about a misleading headline. Makes it seem like the national unemployment rate is 7.1 percent."
It's a regional headline.
If you read the article, it also mentions that the national unemployment rate also increased.

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I hear what youre saying but I think there is a big problem with the disapearance of manufacturing in this country.
All the states you mention are manufacturing states and it makes as much sense as importing all oyur food.

[hermgem]

There are local reasons for those three most high unemployment States.
Exempt Alaska, theirs is force fed by enviro-activists.
However South Carolina and especially Michigan need to ask their Democrat Governors and their elected legislators why there is peak unemployment, but more so, what they're doing about.
Just read that this superb Michigan Governor Granholm went to Japan to entice Toyota to put up stakes in her State.
After she gets her negative reply she at least should start to ask herself: Why?
To give a hint: Entrenched labor interests and politicians meddling in the past.

[Willie Green]

Strategic and Economic Blunders Litter Zoellick's Record

[bert]

check your freep mail

[SC Swamp Fox]

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