NC unemployment rate climbs to 9.9 percent - highest this year

[kick-ass-bob]

Source: WRAL - Raleigh NC

Layoffs in state and local governments have driven North Carolina’s unemployment rate to the highest level in nearly a year.

Some 10,200 jobs were cut from the public sector, including 7,200 in state government, leading to a statewide jobless rate of 9.9 percent in June, the North Carolina Employment Security Commission reported Friday.

Read more: http://www.wral.com/business/story/9894927/

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Shocking that cutting state budgets would somehow increase unemployment. I can't believe that it would actually do that.

Do I really need :sarcasm:

[iwishiwas]

1. WI and MN have gone up also (small increases)

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. Two words: Republican legislature. n/t

[Tunkamerica]

3. They've overridden Perdue's vetoes of the budget and everything else but whose fault

will the unemployment be come election time?

[xchrom]

4. Recommend

[blue_onyx]

5. Same in MI

Our unemployment had steadily decreased for several years, from a peak of 15.3%. Now it went up for the second month in a row. The damage from Gov. Snyder's economic policies aren't taking long to take affect.