TN is at 10.5
It is about to get worse as GM is closing here and pulling out at least for a little while.. Kansas City will get many of our local residents.. but I don't know who will buy the houses they leave here for sale....
I just did a search and came up with this. It is a comparison of unemployment in Sept 1982 and Sept. 2009 Not much has changed from Sept 2009 to today.
HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT STATES, September 1982
Michigan: 15.8 percent
West Virginia: 15.6 percent
Alabama: 13.8 percent
Ohio: 13.1 percent
Illinois: 12.2 percent
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HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT STATES, September 2009
Michigan: 15.3 percent
Nevada: 13.3 percent
Rhode Island: 13 percent
California: 12.2 percent
South Carolina: 11.6 percent
ANALYSIS: Manufacturers in the rust belt were hit particularly hard in the early 1980s, putting Midwestern states such as Michigan, Ohio and Illinois in the top 5. While Michigan again has the nation's highest unemployment today, states like Nevada and California are suffering from the housing bubble.
Washington was 9.2 in August, it was 5.4 last year....
Dorothy, the news said this is our highest unemployment in 17 years.. That would be 1982.. I don't remember what was happening then.. uhhhhhh but my son was born that year! LOL
PP , I don't know what it was for your state but i am sure it had to have been close to what it is now. The recession in the 80's wasn't much different than now as far as I am concerned. I do hope it hasn't affected you and yours to much.
Not sure but after our GM pulled out everything has gone down the drain, no such thing as a job opening in our area. All the businesses keep pulling out, the mall is like walking in a morgue whenever I go there.
PP I did a search for Tennesse unemployment rate for 1982 and found this.
When the national economy bottomed out in November 1982, the Tennessee unemployment rate stood at 12.3 percent, still nearly two percentage ...www.state.tn.us/tacir/.../tennessee_economy.html - Cached - Similar
I'm in SC, so I guess I'm in that 11.6 percent. Although not completely unemployed we haven't work a full month since Feb. We draw unemployment 1-3 weeks/month.
A new Boeing plant is coming about an hour from here. Maybe I'll try to get on there.
Had to make a trip to the employment office today for a review. Most of the jobs I see I am either over or under qualified for. Maybe I should go back to school again.
I don't remember 1982. My oldest son was born the end of 81 (he'll be 28 next Friday the 13th) and I got pregnant again in 82. My ex and I had good jobs at the time so I guess that one didn't affect us. But this sure has affected me. I have worked for this company for almost 20 yrs and we only had one mo. during that time that I had to draw unemployment for a month, and that was 2001.
Leslie
Your Boeing gain is our Boeing loss....
The sad part is that some areas do gain because other areas lost.. I guess that is life!
We didn't have diddly during that recession, so I don't think we noticed.. It was tough times for sure...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Oct. 20, 2009) — Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary unemployment rate fell to 10.9 percent in September 2009 from a revised 11.2 percent in August 2009, according to the Office of Employment and Training (OET), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. September 2009’s jobless rate is 4 percentage points higher than the 6.9 percent rate recorded in September 2008.
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 last year. Alabama's unemployment rate of 10.7 percent for September was the state's highest in 24 1/2 years. August's rate of 10.3 percent was 12th worst among the states.
utah has about 6% unemployment but that does not include thjose who are working partime or who have given up looking..
it is a very tough market out there right now. i just don't know what to hink about it. i do feel that we are in a depression and not a recession
on the national average, they stated on the news that if they included people who have taken parttime jobs because they can not find a full time job and those who have given up looking then the national average is 17.6%.
Our numbers have definitely increased in the last year. The last I heard, we were tenth, meaning there are 40 states better off than we are.
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