I find that hard to believe.
When we moved to this Washington State community in 1999, the local newspaper adds for jobs stretched for 7 full pages.
Today, for the first time, there were no adds at all. The local state-run employment office listed 8 jobs, 3 of which were logging related, two were insurance company sales jobs, and the rest were part-time seasonal jobs.
I know my local community must have an unemployement rate over 25%. Every job I apply for has literally hundreds of applications. Even my father’s barber said that men are buzz-cutting their own hair rather that pay for a haircut!
Can’t be that bad, the Coincident Rating map for your state says things are really improving rapidly there.
Tongue planted in cheek.