Employment in most states better than last year

Payrolls Drop in 28 U.S. States, Joblessness Rises in 21 in Labor Setback
Payrolls decreased in 28 U.S. states and the Unemployment Rate climbed in 21, showing most parts of the world's largest economy took part in the November labor- market setback. North Carolina led the nation with 12,500 Job Cuts last month, followed by Massachusetts with 8,600 dismissals, and Ohio with 7,800, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. Joblessness increased most in Georgia and Idaho, while workers in Nevada faced the highest rate in the country at 14.3 percent...

Labor Market Stagnant in Most U.S. States
By Phil Izzo Unemployment Rates were little changed in most states in November, as employment was stagnant in most of the U.S. The Labor Department reported that 21 states and Washington DC experienced jobless-rate increases in November from October, while the rate fell in 15 regions and was unchanged in 14. In all, 13 states had rates above or equal to the 9.8% national figure released earlier this month. Nevada remained the state with the highest Unemployment rate in the nation — 14.3% ...

Unemployment rate rises in 21 states, falls in 15
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment Rates rose in 21 states last month, the highest number to report an increase since August. The report is a reminder of the Job Market’s struggle to rebound even as The Economy is improving. The Labor Department said Friday that Unemployment rates fell in 15 states in November and remained the same in 14 states. That’s the fewest to see a drop in Unemployment since August. Georgia and Idaho endured the largest increases in unemployment. GeorgiaR...

NH and Alabama Defy US Trend, Reduce Unemployment
Friday, December 17, 2010 By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press Washington (AP) - The national Unemployment Rate has been stuck above 9.5 percent for more than a year, yet some states have made strides. Two states with little else in common - New Hampshire and Alabama - have seen the steepest drops in Unemployment in the 12 months that ended in November. New Hampshire has added jobs in a broad range of industries, including Manufacturing, education and Health Care, and leisure and hos...

Extension of jobless benefits affects about 17,000 Rhode Islanders
PAWTUCKET — Legislation signed into law by President Obama on Friday will extend federal Unemployment Benefits for thousands of out-of-work Rhode Islanders. Congress last month let lapse some key federal benefit programs. As a consequence, the maximum amount of time that an unemployed Rhode Islander could collect jobless benefits was cut by up to 53 weeks. But a far-reaching tax bill, approved overnight by the House and signed Friday afternoon by Mr. Obama, includes a 13-month extension of...

Extension of jobless benefits affects about 17,000 Rhode Islanders
PAWTUCKET — Legislation signed into law by President Obama on Friday will extend federal Unemployment Benefits for thousands of out-of-work Rhode Islanders. Congress last month let lapse some key federal benefit programs. As a consequence, the maximum amount of time that an unemployed Rhode Islander could collect jobless benefits was cut by up to 53 weeks. But a far-reaching tax bill, approved overnight by the House and signed Friday afternoon by Mr. Obama, includes a 13-month extension of...

State Numbers Show Employment Struggling To Rebound With Economy
What is this? Unemployment Rates rose in 21 states last month, fell in 15 states and remained the same in 14, according to statistics released by the Department of Labor on Friday. Georgia and Idaho suffered the most, with an increase from 9.8 percent to 10.1 percent for the Peach State and a jump from 9.1 percent to 9.4 percent for Idaho. Michigan and Pennsylvania saw the biggest improvements in the survey. Michigan dropped from 12.8 to 12.4 percent, while Pennsylvania fell from 8.8 to 8.6 perc...

Keeping the Good News in Perspective
The most recent batch of economic data has been quite positive. On Thursday alone, three different reports showed that initial Jobless Claims had fallen, Housing Starts and the issuance of building permits had both risen and a Federal Reserve index of Manufacturing activity rose too. But before getting too excited about these trends, let’s think back to the early part of this year. Back then, initial Jobless Claims were falling. Housing starts and the issuance of building permits were risi...

Unemployment Rate Rises in 21 States, Falls in 15
Florida, California, Michigan have Unemployment Rates at 12% or above, Nevada coming in dead last at 14.3% Unemployment Associated Press WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates rose in 21 states last month, the highest number to report an increase since August. The report is a reminder of the Job Market’s struggle to rebound even as The Economy is improving. The Labor Department said Friday that Unemployment Rates fell in 15 states in November and remained the same in 14 states. That’...

Nevada rate to 14.3%...
Unemployment in the Silver State rose from 14.2 percent in October to 14.3 percent in November, the State Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation said this morning. Joblessness in Las Vegas went from 14.1 percent to 14.3 percent. Both numbers remain below their records in September, when Unemployment spiked to 14.4 percent statewide and 15 percent in Las Vegas. In addition to staying below their highs, the newest figures reveal other hints that Nevada's labor market has stopped its f...

Unemployment rate rises in 21 states, falls in 15
Unemployment rates rose in 21 states last month, the most number to report an increase since August. The report is a reminder of the Job Market's struggle to rebound even as The Economy is improving. The Labor Department says Unemployment Rates fell in 15 states in November and remained the same in 14 states. That's the fewest to see a drop in Unemployment since August. Georgia and Idaho endured the largest increases in unemployment. Georgia's rate rose to 10.1 percent from 9.8 percent. Idaho's ...

Unemployment rate rises in 21 states, falls in 15
WASHINGTON — Unemployment Rates rose in 21 states last month, the most number to report an increase since August. The report is a reminder of the Job Market’s struggle to rebound even as The Economy is improving. The Labor Department says Unemployment rates fell in 15 states in November and remained the same in 14 states. That’s the fewest to see a drop in Unemployment since August. Georgia and Idaho endured the largest increases in unemployment. Georgia’s rate rose to 1...

Which States Will Gain/Lose House Seats?
The Census Bureau will release its official state population totals next week along with the resulting allotment of House seats for the next decade. Cook Political Report: "For some states, there isn't much suspense. Georgia, Nevada, and Utah are all but certain to gain an additional seat in the House, while Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are all but certain to lose a seat and Ohio is all but certain to lose two seats. However, much like NCAA ba...

Chico Campaign Plans for Chicago Manufacturing
Gery Chico unveiled a Manufacturing plan on December 3rd. Although the specifics are too large for the space allotted here, I can address some of it. Here is the Press Release:  (Chicago) Speaking to a group of Manufacturing company owners on the Southside today, Mayoral Candidate Gery Chico shared a few ideas to revive Chicago as a Manufacturing city and create more industrial jobs. “We need to use the entrepreneurial spirit that transformed Chicago from a city of stockyards to a cit...

New York City Unemployment Continues to Drop
This year more New Yorkers are getting what they really want for the holidays...jobs. Despite a high national Unemployment Rate, the New York City rate continues to drop from its high of 10.5 percent last year to 9.1 percent. Guess that Bloomberg-Spiderman collaboration paid off. Roughly 14,000 jobs were added in November, but not in the service areas that one would expect in the Fall; Job Creation has been attributed to areas such as Accounting and the dark underworld of Wall Street, which i...

Employment figures improve
Iowa’s Unemployment Rate in November slipped to 6.6 percent from 6.7 percent in October, gaining just 100 Payroll jobs over the month, a report today showed. Iowa’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate a year ago was 6.5 percent, said Iowa Workforce Development. ...

New Jersey Senators divided over tax cut extension
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010, the United States Senate voted 81-19 overwhelmingly in favor of extending the temporary Tax Cuts put in place by former President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003.  President Barack Obama urged the United States Congress to agree with the Tax Cuts being extended after he brokered a deal with the Republican leaders in the Senate.  However, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg did not vote in favor of the tax cut extension brokered by President Obama while ...

Unemployment Up in Struggling States in November
You may remember the November national Unemployment report as being a strange one. Jobs grew a little, but the Unemployment Rate increased to 9.8% from 9.6%. The state-by-state results today are also a little odd. Although the Unemployment Rate only declined in 15 states, employment increased in 35, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What's going on here? The main reason why both employment and Unemployment could increase in a state has to do with Labor Force size. If the nu...

Rolaids Recall Linked to Best Sweet, a North Carolina Plant
Best Sweet, a maker of candy and chewy over-the-counter drug products in Mooresville, N.C., made the millions of Rolaids soft chews involved in a recall last week by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, according to Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the Johnson & Johnson unit, recalled about 13 million packages of Rolaids on Dec. 9, saying that metal and wood particles may have contaminated the items during production at a third-party manufacturer. But M...

Economys strong week raises optimism for 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — Buoyed by a string of hopeful government reports on layoffs, factory production and Consumer Spending, Economists are predicting that hiring and even housing will pick up in 2011 and make it a better year after all. The reports issued this week, along with a tax-cut plan that Congress is set to pass, point to stronger overall growth next year, experts say. Growth “has improved as the year is coming to an end,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s ...

Strong week for economy raises optimism for 2011
In this Nov. 30, 2010 photo, a battery pack is shown prior to being installed... WASHINGTON (AP) - Buoyed by a string of hopeful government reports on layoffs, factory production and Consumer Spending, Economists are predicting that hiring and even housing will pick up in 2011 and make it a better year after all. The reports issued this week, along with a tax-cut plan that Congress is set to pass, point to stronger overall growth next year, experts say. Growth "has improved as the year is comi...

Economy's strong week raises optimism for 2011
In this Dec. 15, 2010 photo, Jesse Paloger holds up a sign while standing on Wall Street as he hopes to find a job, in New York. Paloger, who has an Accounting and economics degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written on the bottom of his sign, "Go-getter from California looking for my shot!" Fewer people applied for Unemployment Benefits last week, the third drop in the past four weeks and a sign that the Job Market is slowly improving. Buoyed by a string of hopeful go...

Strong week for economy raises optimism for 2011
WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by a string of hopeful government reports on layoffs, factory production and Consumer Spending, Economists are predicting that hiring and even housing will pick up in 2011 and make it a better year after all. The reports issued this week, along with a tax-cut plan that Congress is set to pass, point to stronger overall growth next year, experts say. Growth "has improved as the year is coming to an end," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. &qu...;

Tax cuts brighten still-dim economic outlook
By itself, the tax package nearing completion in Washington won't get the U.S. economy back on track. But every little bit helps. And while the U.S. economy is on the mend, it's got a long way to go to repair the damage from the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. That’s the view, at least, of a majority of Economists surveyed in MSNBC.com’s annual Economic Roundtable. In just the past month, many forecasters have boosted their outlook for next year, based on a se...

Mike Lux: The Most Important Report of the Next Two Years
It is pretty audacious for me to claim that any given report is the most important one to be issued in the next two years given that I obviously have no idea what else is going to be published. I am feeling fairly confident about this one, though. It's not because the facts assembled are so groundbreaking, or the research goes deep to find things no one else could have found. It is because this report is a clear roadmap to the economic and political path the Obama White House should be taking....