What is the unemployment situation where you live?
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May 23rd, 2012
The unemployment rate for Massachusetts is at 6.3%. My town is just above 4% unemployment.
What’s it like in your area? Do you know many people who are unemployed?
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Unemployment is at 5.6% in my state and at 4.9% in my town.
100% employment in my house… for now.
Texas: 6.5
Austin: 5.5
Midland (in west Texas) has an incredible 3.5 rate
I do know quite a few unemployed people
10.4% for my area, which is actually down quite a bit in recent years, it was something like 16.1% in 2010. Yes, a great number of the people that I know are unemployed or underemployed, and 49.8% of the people in this area are living below the poverty level.
Looks like 11.5% for the state, 8.1% for the county, 6.5% for the city, 20% in my house (we have a financial analyst, grad student on fellowship, full-time nanny, bartender, and out-of-work tutor).
I live in the Laurentians, which is a region filled with a bunch of small towns up in the mountains. Mine is one of the biggest ones, which has been defined for years as ’‘the Welfare Plateau’’. Lol. It’s been doing way better in the past years though. Apparently though, it almost looked like a ghost town 15 years ago or so. The unemployment rate in the town is 8.2 while the province is at 7.0.
Using unemployment insurance payment as a guide, California is right around 11 percent, but there are far more people out of work that aren’t receiving unemployment, and thousands are being laid off every month.
In my family, my son has been out of work over a year, and he is now going to school, his wife is also looking for part time work. My two grandsons are working part time and would like full time jobs.
I’m not sure of the actual statistics in NY but I’m unemployed and having one hell of a time finding a job that doesn’t require me to flip burgers.
9% in Florida, 8.6% in Pinellas County, 8.5% in St. Petersburg. But I think it is much worse than that, and I’m seeing a rampant increase in domestic violence, drug abuse and crime around the docks along the waterfront where I live. According to state economists, it is not expected to improve until around 2016. When things starting going to hell in 2008, I was laid off as a clinical research coordinator, sold everything and went sailing. I did some disaster work in Haiti after the earthquake, then went sailing some more—basically living on a subsistence level for the past three years lately delivering other people’s vessels to repair docks, etc., even doing unlicensed “sunset cruises” on my own vessel. I take fish from the sea, fruit from the trees. Until a month ago, I used whatever ambient wifi I found within reach to go online. Recently, I had to come in for a badly needed overhaul and I took a job as a floor nurse in a private psychiatric facility. I was surprised at how many hoops I had to jump through to get this job for which I am way over-qualified. I feel lucky to be working, especially at my age and during these economic times. The plan is to work, make the needed repairs over the summer and fall, then head back out next winter. If I get torpedoed by a hurricane or whatever, Plan B is to go back to school, which is what I did during the recession of the ‘70s. It worked out well.
National 8.2%
Minnesota 5.8%
Twin Cities 5.6%
…but our neighbor, North Dakota, makes us look bad. They have only 3% unemployment. Tons of jobs in the oil fields..just a shortage of housing.
Apparently the unemployment rate in the region I live in is “substantially below” the English average.
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