What's your unemployment rate?

[Charlie Mike]

CA rose to 12.5% in October. Fresno County is 15.8%

 

[YayILikePie]

One of the many reasons I'm still working at the same apparel store. That, and I love the rush of the holidays. Can't wait till Black Friday. It's gonna be fun on a bun.

 

[amen74]

CA rose to 12.5% in October. Fresno County is 15.8%

It's a steady 12.5% and climbing. :thumbdn:

 

[TyMathews]

I think ours here in Deschutes County is something like 13% and growing.

-Tye

 

[Trent Rock]

The unemployment rate in the Santa Barbara County was 8.8 percent in October 2009, up from a
revised 8.5 percent in September 2009, and above the year-ago estimate of 5.8 percent. This
compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 12.3 percent for California and 9.5 percent​

for the nation during the same period

My sector is up .9% for the month
Down -3.5% for the year

 

[Kdarmy]

After being unemployed for 6-months...I can proudly say that I now work in Pinellas County

The following was posted in today news...

STATE OF FLORIDA
UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS BY COUNTY
OCTOBER 2009

CITRUS 12.0
HERNANDO 13.8
HILLSBOROUGH 11.6
MANATEE 12.4
PASCO 12.5
PINELLAS 11.2
POLK 12.5

 

[gajinoz]

The average over my state of New South Wales is approximately 5.5%

It various in different areas and among different employment types.

 

[knarfeng]

CA rose to 12.5% in October. Fresno County is 15.8%

San Diego County is at 10.5% for October.
My company is busy moving production and design offshore. I expect my job to last about 5 more years. By then I'll only be 62. Too old to find another job. Too young to retire.

 

[A.W.U.K.]

7.8% for the UK.

 

[Josh K]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Michigan became the first state in 25 years to suffer an unemployment rate exceeding 15%, according to a report released Friday by the Labor Department.

The state's unemployment rate rose to 15.2% in June. It was the highest of any state since March 1984, when West Virginia's unemployment rate exceeded 15%.

That was un July. It's probably worse now.

 

[mycroftt]

Around 6.3% Virginia statewide - but it's much lower here in Northern Virginia where all the federal workers live.

 

[JNieporte]

11.3% State-wide (Ohio)

 

[mndart]

Ohio unemployment rises to 10.5 pct in Oct
(AP) – 5 hours ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said Friday that joblessness increased despite slightly more hiring by both services and goods-producing businesses.
Department director Douglas Lumpkin says more workers found themselves unemployed and looking for work, keeping the state's labor market weak.
The number of workers unemployed in Ohio last month was 618,000, up from 594,000 in September.
But nonfarm payroll employment rose by 1,400.

Ohio joblessness had fallen in both August and September. Officials said the reason was that job seekers were getting discouraged and dropping out of the labor force.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[OldPhysics]

The average over my state of New South Wales is approximately 5.5%

It various in different areas and among different employment types.

Northern Virginia is fortunate to be in this vicinity.

It used to be in the 3's.:grumpy:

I'm sure it's slowly getting worse ... as it is everywhere in the States.

 

[samhain73]

7.6 here in MN.

 

[Watchmaker]

My personal UR is 100% in three days from now.

Won't miss them.

 

[Daniel]

The publicized unemployment rates are for the U-3 unemployment figure. The real rate that they should be publicizing is the U-6 unemployment rate which is a more true indication of unemployment. U-6 equals the total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.

For example, California's U-3 rate is 12.5, but it's U-6 rate is 19.6%.

http://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

If you additionally add in the number of "disillusioned" workers who are not recorded in any statistics due to them falling off of the rolls completely, the figures are ridiculous. In CA, for example, it is estimated that over 30% are unemployed in reality.

Where I live, the "official" rate is 15.8%. This figure is far short by failing to record all of the workers who were out of work over 6 months.

 

[unky_gumbi]

Up here in the not so frozen north, AKA Winnipeg Mb, we are sitting at 6.0% up 1.2% from last year. All and all not bad.

 

[misque]

13.4%. And the Munchkins are pissed...

 

[lohengrin]

25% in South Africa, which is why I'm working in Korea at the moment...