Change you can Believe in !!!!
ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor says the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to a record 10.4 percent in January, and Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond says the job crisis is getting worse.
The rate tops the previous record of 10.3 percent set in December. It's also up 2 percentage points from the 8.4 percent at this same time last year.
Comparing January to January 2009, Augusta lost 800 jobs, or 0.4 percent, of its employment, according to Workforce Information and Analysis at the Georgia Department of Labor.
Most of those losses came in manufacturing, construction and local government. Smaller losses were recorded in hospitality, transportation, wholesale trade and information.
However, the Augusta area gained jobs in professional and business services, retail trade, health services and federal and state government.
Augusta fared better than most other metro areas in the state. Savannah posted a loss of 3,600 jobs for the year, most of those coming in manufacturing, transportation and warehousing.
Dalton lost 2,900 jobs in 2009. Gainesville, Valdosta and Albany lost 2,300 jobs, the state said.
Thurmond says he's concerned that thousands of pending state government layoffs will do additional damage to Georgia's private job market.
The metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of job losses during the same period are Dalton, down 4.3 percent; Valdosta, down 4.2 percent; and Atlanta, down 4 percent.
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Change you can Believe in !!!!
Unemployment benefits will have to be extended for two years.
Must have been the snow, haven't you heard? We have been instructed to view these numbers as an anomaly due to snow storms.
How's that Hopey Changey thing working out for ya?
The Hopey Changey thing reminds me of Pelosi's "itty bitty spider", throw them out with the dishwater. They think 10.4 is good, after all it is gong "UP"
Well done Barry and Joe!
Countyman, I don't understand! Why is this story in direct contradiction to what you have been saying about how well Augusta is doing?
If the state leguslature and the governor were concerned, they would take drastic steps now. Why haven'y they enacted legislation to make it a criminal offense to hire an illegal alien? The reason is they don't want to hurt their business friends bottom line. My god the city of Dalton is almost entirely illegal aliens. Make it a fine of 10,000 per incident and sell the assets of the companys. Get their attention by changing the laws. I would venyure to say if one company is hit hard and fast the rest will comply in a timely manner. That is how you stop the unemployment, by closing those that won't and allowing those that will to rise from the ashes.
just as i suspected would happen. obama's stimulus package--unemployment rises.
Amen to disssman. Getting rid of the illegals and dropping all taxes( no irs) except a national sales tax might fix this mess. That creates jobs and all illegal activity gets taxed. All the structure is in place to do it. Those making a living off the IRS could do jobs that actually produce something that we could sell to the rest of the world.
soldout--right on. flat tax-sales tax. anything is better than the current system which penalizes people for getting a raise, becoming successful.
disssman--in dalton, the hispanics "might" have bought fake green cards at the flea market. millions of them do that. that is how they get hired on.
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