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Just two years after hitting a record low, the unemployment rate in Alabama climbed to 10.9 percent in October, the highest it has been in more than 25 years, state officials announced Friday.
In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.
The unemployment rate in Rhode Island has fallen for the first time in nearly three years, dropping slightly to 12.9 percent in October.
A shrinking labor force and about 1,000 new jobs have helped put Colorado's latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October at 6.9 percent, a slight decrease from the previous month, the state Department of Labor and Employment said Friday.
Florida's unemployment rate continued its steady upward climb in October to 11.2 percent — a mark last seen in the 1970s and a tenth of a percentage point higher than September's adjusted rate, state officials said Friday.
Indiana's unemployment rate was almost unchanged from September to October, but officials said it's too early to tell whether the stability marks a long-awaited awaited rebound in employment.
Nebraska's unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent in October even as the national rate crept up to 10.2 percent.
Ohio's unemployment rate has gone up for the first time in three months, to 10.5 percent in October from 10.1 percent in September.
North Carolina's unemployment rate rose slightly to 11 percent in October, a fraction off its historic peak earlier this year and the ninth straight month in double digits, the state's Employment Security Commission reported Friday.
The unemployment rate in South Carolina rose nearly half a percentage point in October, returning to a record level of 12.1 percent set earlier this year, the state agency that calculates the rate said Friday.
Texas' unemployment rate inched up to 8.3 percent in October while the state bucked a yearlong trend by adding jobs, officials said Friday.
Alaska's unemployment rate jumped to 8.9 percent last month.
The Connecticut Labor Department says the state's unemployment rate increased slightly to 8.8 percent, even though employers added 1,000 jobs in October.
The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in nearly 2 1/2 years as the job market was spurred by expansion in the science, health and business services sectors.
Illinois' unemployment rate continued to climb last month, rising to its highest level in more than a quarter century, officials reported Thursday.
Arizona's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 9.3 percent in October, from 9.1 percent in September, despite job gains in some sectors.
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development says the state's unemployment rate remained at 10.5 percent for the second straight month in October.
New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September.
Michigan's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 15.1 percent in October as total employment grew in the state for the first time since mid-2007, according to a state report released Wednesday.
Michigan's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 15.1 percent in October.
The unemployment rate in Oregon did not change last month, suggesting the recession may be easing, although economists also warned it is too early to tell.
Missouri's unemployment rate dropped slightly last month as a few thousand more people gained jobs.
Thousands of Pennsylvania residents who have exhausted their unemployment compensation benefit may be able to get 20 more weeks of checks.
Unemployed workers and homebuyers caught a break thanks to a new law signed by President Barack Obama on Friday. The law offers tax credits for homebuyers, extending and expanding a popular program, and extends jobless benefits up to 20 weeks for unemployed workers who can’t find a job. Here’s how the plans will work.
Unemployed Rhode Islanders can now collect jobless benefits for up to 99 weeks.
It has become glaringly apparent that we are in trouble. You can decide for yourself what the trouble is for you in your life. You can even deny that we are facing a bleak future if you wish. for me and mine, we have decided that it is time.
Obama asks for patience on economyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to show patience over the economy and argued that his just-concluded Asia trip was critical for U.S. exports, countering criticism he had returned empty-handed.
A Job Saved Is as Good as a Job CreatedThe debate over how effective the Obama administration's efforts have been at turning the economy around now seems to hinge on the question of whether saving a job is as good as creating one. The answer is clearly yes...
Dislocated in AmericaWhat may be occurring is a seismic shift in the American economy, one that could leave as many as one in four Americans permanently unemployed or so drastically underemployed that he or she can't make ends meet.
New Consensus Views Stimulus as Worthy Step - NYTimes.comNow that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big infusion, they say.
Reid: Obama's Health Care Experiment More Important Than American Jobs The sad tale of a man who's only interest - per his own words - is re-election:
Obama job approval rating drops under 50 percentWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent in a second major poll in an indication he is suffering from the long healthcare debate and weakness in the economy, Gallup said on Friday.
Obama Must Toss the Bums in Treasury Out, End the Wars, and Start Leading ...Having surrounded himself with the very Wall Street con men who set up the crooked game that led to the current financial crisis and economic collapse, and finding that the lousy advice they have been giving him since last January has left the country still mired in deepening …
State unemployment rates rise - Nov. 20, 2009NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A growing number of states reported rising jobless rates in October, and thirteen states reported unemployment rates above the national average of 10.2%, according to a government report released on Friday.
I live on a busy highway. Just 25 feet from my front door is a four lane highway. It is a main vein between cities in the northern woods of Wisconsin. And I am happy here.
Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody -- Violent Deaths Are Now Following Evictions, Foreclosures and Job LossesDespite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.
Democrats & Unaffiliateds More Likely To Be Unemployed Than RepublicansData from Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys shows that 15.0% of Democrats in the workforce are currently unemployed and looking for a job. Among adults not affiliated with either major party, that number is 15.6% while just 9.9% of Republicans are in the same situation.
Post office was $3.8 billion in the red last yearThe Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutting measures.
A Little Less ConversationA Little More Action Obama avoiding the unemployment issue
Calif. Drought Means More Imported ProduceThe talk in sunny California these days is about water - specifically, the lack of it. Legislators there are working a sweeping plan to overhaul the state's water management system.
The worst is yet to come: Unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job lossesThink the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening.
Afghans 'Blame Poverty for War'"Poverty and unemployment are overwhelmingly seen as the main reasons behind conflict in Afghanistan, according to a survey."
Immigration and Crime: New Studies Examine Crime among Immigrants, Local Enforcement EffortsThe findings of the report, "Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Conflicted Issue," show that recent government data, some of which has not been examined before, indicates that immigrants have relatively high rates of criminality.
More - Faulty Job Data on Government Web SiteThe Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee is demanding greater accountability from the the Obama administration after gross inaccuracies were found on a government Web site that tracks jobs purportedly saved or created by the $787 billion stimulus plan.
Wind turbine jobs blow in China's direction - Nice that Obama is making sure they have the jobsThe rush to America of foreign wind-turbine manufacturers shows that the Obama administration's plan for stimulating the creation of green-energy jobs is going in an odd direction. There would be perhaps 330 jobs created in Texas. Most would be temporary construction jobs.
The worst is yet to come: Unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job lossesThink the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening.
The latest round of jobless benefits that recently passed in the Senate and signed by the President 2 weeks ago, has a major flaw that could potentially keep many of the unemployed from receiving benefits after December 26, 2009.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Ahmadinejad's theological foesBy Edward Stourton Analysis, BBC Radio 4 It is not often you find an email from a Grand Ayatollah in your inbox - especially not when the Ayatollah in question is a pivotal figure in one of the great dramas currently unfolding on the world stage.
It's been reported that out of the 12.2 trillion dollars committed, 2.5 trillion dollars or so has been injected into the U.S. economy during last 18 months by the federal government.
A Tax To Grind The average tax rate assessed to corporations worldwide has fallen 10 years in a row, but the U.S. isn't driving the trend. The U.S.
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