Reply #3: Double digits? This county has been in double digits unemployment since [View All]

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December 2008. Normally we have a cycle in this rural part of TN. Unemployment peeks in January then drops significantly through out the year. There have been years where the unemployment peaked in January at 10% then dropped that same year to as low as 3 or 4%.

But recently this cycle has disappeared. The high peek came in December and instead of rapidly dropping, it continued to climb to 17.4%. That's what the county reports so you know it is even higher.

With a 17% unemployment rate what are the odds we are going to get a job?

These are some very tough times for us middle class folks.