Recent Posts Tagged With 'kentucky'

• What States Have the Worst Unemployment?

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 08:34 in Tennessee, ohio, michigan, Florida, South Carolina, California, kentucky, north carolina, oregon, rhode island, unemployment rate

  The BLS has issued unemployment rates by state for July 2009 and for each state that is has the dubious distinction of being in the "Top-10" states of the worst unemployment rates, they have over 10%++ unemployment rates.The States with the highest ...

• How Many Weeks of Unemployment Insurance Do I get?

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 09:42 in Indiana, michigan, Florida, California, kentucky, washington, north carolina, new jersey, wisconsin, nevada, unemployment insurance, tier 2

  cnn has published data that shows how many weeks of UI benefits unemployed workers are eligable to receive. Wyoming gets the least amount of weeks (26 weeks), and a multitude of states are eligable for Tier 2 or Tier 3 benefits that could bring bene...

• 15 States have borrowed Federal Funds to pay UI benefits

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 06:59 in ohio, new york, michigan, South Carolina, California, kentucky, north carolina, new jersey, wisconsin, unemployment fund

  Click for a Larger ImageAccording to Data from May, 2009---14 states have borrowings from the federal government for funding of their depleted unemployment insurance funds---and in the coming months several more states will be added to the list.Michi...

• 5 More States have Double-Digit Unemployment in May

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 07:04 in Tennessee, ohio, michigan, South Carolina, California, kentucky, north carolina, oregon, nevada, rhode island, unemployment rate

  Click for a larger ChartThings continued to worsen in the month of May for many states. An additional 5 States (TN, IN, KY, FL & IL) and Washington DC saw their unemployment rates jump to over 10% in May 2009.Now 13 states have unemployment rat...

• All of Kentucky's 120 Counties saw an increase in unemployment

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 14:36 in kentucky, unemployment rate

  It's bad enough that Kentucky has the nations 9th worst unemployment rate in the nation (with 9.8% unemployment), but according to The Business Courier of Cincinnati every one of the State's 120 counties saw an increase in the ranks of the jobless in...

• The Dirty Dozen---These States Have the Highest Unemployment Rate

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 08:07 in ohio, Indiana, michigan, Florida, South Carolina, California, kentucky, north carolina, oregon, nevada, rhode island, unemployment rate

  Click for a Larger ImageThe Bureau of Labor Statistics has compiled data by state for March's unemployment rate and there are now 8 states with double digit unemployment.Michigan -- 12.6%Oregon -- 12.1%South Carolina -- 11.4%California -- 11.2%North...

• Louisville is sporting a 10% unemployment rate

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 20:11 in kentucky, unemployment rate

  According to the news & tribune the home of the Kentucky Derby is currently sporting a 10% unemployment rate (As of February 2009).This rate is up 60 basis points from January's 9.4% unemployment rate in January...Clearly the big race held on the...

• 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...

• 7 States have borrowed money from the Feds to pay unemployment insurance benefits

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 17:32 in ohio, new york, Indiana, michigan, South Carolina, California, kentucky, unemployment rate, unemployment insurance, unemployment fund

  Click for a larger imageAccording to the Department of Labor there are 7 states which currently have run out of money in their unemployment funds and have been forced to borrow money from the feds in order to keep the unemployment insurance checks fl...