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unemployment statistics

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Nuggets of knowledge, statistics, and advice about unemployment in the United States.

Added on: Dec 31st, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Tom
Listed in: Economics Business
Tags: unemployment unemployment rate unemployment insurance unemployment benefits

Recent Posts

Auto Insurance Price Quotes

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 22:12 in insurance

If you're recently unemployed, you really need to change your spending to get more inline with your income (i.e. a small severance and tiny unemployment insurance checks)... This means scaling back on the dining out, cutting the cable bill, no more...
Unemployment Medical Insurance

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 21:26 in Health Insurance, new york, New York City, medical insurance, cobra, unemployment insurance

If you're recently unemployed, you need to figure out what to do concerning your families health insurance---Odds are pretty good that your employer will take you off their health plan real quick. So you may be asking yourself, "How can unemployed w...
Minimum Wage Goes Up, Teen Employment Goes Down

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 16:33 in jobs, minimum wage

Economist Casey Mulligan has an interesting blog-post on how the recent increase in the minimum wage rate has measurably reduced the amount of teenagers that have jobs. ...
Michigan\'s U-6 Unemployment over 20%

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 16:05 in jobs, michigan, unemployment rate, underemployed

According to mlive the broader level of unemployment in Michigan is over 21%.For the 12 months from November 2008 to October 2009, Michigan had 21.1% of workers either out of a job, or working part time for economic reasons.Of Michigan's 83 counties,...
Average Hours Worked Per Week Down to 33 hours per week

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 15:24 in initial jobless claims, hours worked

Click on Chart for a Bigger ImageThe average hours worked per week is hovering around record lows of 33 hrs/week. Data has been kept for the last 45 years, and the above chart is for a seasonally adjusted... The worrying aspect of this data is tha...
California Has Lost 1 million+ Jobs in this Recession

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 14:56 in jobs, California, unemployment rate

For the movie buffs out there, you may remember the classic movie "Grapes of Wrath" where people who lost their jobs in the dust-bowl drying up agriculture jobs in the midwest loaded everybody up in the car to head to California---Land of jobs and op...