Recent Posts Tagged With 'Illinois'

• Illinois' June Unemployment Rate tops 10%

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 09:22 in Illinois, unemployment rate

  The ranks of the unemployed in Illinois swelled to 10.3% in June 2009---That's 0.8 percentage points greater than the national average (9.5%) for the same month.The state lost 5,400 construction jobs and 2,800 manufacturing jobs in June. The total n...

• 9.4% of Illinois Workers Are Jobless

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 07:18 in Illinois, unemployment rate

  According to the Chicago Sun Times, Illinois' unemployment rate climbed to 9.4% in April 2009--That's up 0.4 percentage points from March 2009 and up 3.2% points from April-2008's 6.2% rate---That means in one short year, there are 50%+ more unemploy...

• Illinois' unemployment rate at 9.1% in March 2009

  Posted on Friday April 17th, 2009 at 08:47 in Illinois, unemployment rate

  Click for Larger ImageThe State of Illinois has posted a 9.1% unemployment rate for March 2009---This is up a half percentage point from February's 8.6%---And the bls has restated the entire prior 12 months (some up, some down, some the same).This un...

• Many Areas in Illinois are seeing double-digit unemployment

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 13:33 in Illinois, unemployment rate

  According to the Chicago Tribune the state of Illinois saw unemployment rates rise in every single metro area during the month of February.In February, the state's unemployment rate was 8.6%---With Rockford, IL having the state's highest rate (14%) f...

• 13 States won't get Tier 3 unemployment benefits

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 08:00 in Tennessee, ohio, Alabama, new york, georgia, Florida, California, missouri, arizona, maine, Illinois, unemployment benefit

  According to the San Francisco Gate there are some states that have laws on the books that prevent them from being able to give the jobless an additional 20 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits that were included in the Obama stimulus package.Acc...

• These 10 States have the Highest Rates of Unemployment

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 17:22 in Tennessee, ohio, michigan, georgia, Florida, South Carolina, California, north carolina, Illinois, nevada, rhode island, unemployment rate

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics released data today for the January, 2009 unemployment rates by state... These 11 states have the dubious distinction of having the highest unemployment rates in the U.S.Michigan ---11.6%South Carolina -- 10.4%Rhode I...

• These 15 states have the highest rates of unemployment

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 15:09 in Tennessee, ohio, michigan, georgia, Florida, South Carolina, California, kentucky, north carolina, oregon, Illinois, nevada

  Click Chart for a Larger ImageAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics these 15 states had the highest levels of unemployment in the United States during December 2008. Each of these states also had levels of u...

• Unemployment rate rises throughout the US

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 14:50 in new york, Indiana, michigan, north carolina, arizona, Illinois, rhode island, unemployment rate

  A reader recently sent me this article that was posted on careerbuilder that gives some pretty interesting statistics on the current unemployment situation in the United States.The latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics* showed six states...