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December 20, 2011 in Nation/World
Unemployment fell in 43 states in November
WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates fell in 43 states in November, the most number of states to report such declines in eight years.
The falling state rates reflect the brightening jobs picture nationally. The U.S. unemployment rate fell sharply in November to 8.6 percent, the lowest since March 2009. The economy has generated 100,000 or more jobs five months in a row — the first time that’s happened since 2006, before the Great Recession.
Only three states reported higher unemployment rates in November, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Four states showed no change.
Nevada for the 18th straight month had the highest state unemployment rate: 13 percent. It was followed by California at 11.3 percent. North Dakota again enjoyed the lowest unemployment rate: 3.4 percent. It was followed by Nebraska at 4.1 percent and South Dakota at 4.3 percent.
The biggest decline in the unemployment rate in November compared with October was in Michigan. Its rate dropped by 0.8 percentage point to 9.8 percent, from 10.6 percent in October.
Alabama, Minnesota, South Carolina and Utah all reported declines of 0.6 percentage point in November from October.
Employers added jobs in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Employment decreased in 19 states and was unchanged in two. The largest month-over-month increases were in New York, up 29,500 jobs, and Texas, with a gain of 20,800.
The largest month-over-month decline occurred in Wisconsin, a drop of 14,600 payroll jobs.
The drop in unemployment rates in 43 states marked the most number of states to show declines since October 2003.
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richardch on December 20 at 2:49 p.m.
Isn’t Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid’s state. Boy I’m glad I don’t live there.
jddavis on December 20 at 3:05 p.m.
The BLS.gov site also reports Washington had an increase of 9100 jobs Oct - Nov 2011 and an increase of 59,700 jobs Nov 2010 to Nov 2011. Hopefully, this is an indication of things to come!
Shadedmuse on December 20 at 3:09 p.m.
Ression is over thanks for a greatful president from Hawaii who ended the Bush-tea-bagger ression. I know this because I now have a job.
selkirks on December 20 at 3:11 p.m.
@richardch:
I don’t really think it could be because of Harry Reid’s leadership. I’m not a Nevadan, obviously, but if you look at Nevada’s primary industries, they pretty much tell the whole story.
You’ve got tourism. Which has taken a huge hit. You’ve got mining, which has also taken a hit. You’ve got an aerospace presence. Also a hit.
I think you’ve also got to look at what their unemployment rate was prior to, say, July of 2008. It was 6.6%, already above the national rate.
So I think it’s a combination of factors and it’s not really a reflection on Harry Reid’s leadership so much as Congress’ leadership and the Nevada State Leadership.
The_Seer on December 20 at 3:28 p.m.
Stick close to home, richie. You vote for McMoRo like an automaton every two years and there are counties in her district that had double digit unemployment BEFORE the recession.
dataxman on December 20 at 3:32 p.m.
It would be nice if it were true…
First, if the pool of available workers were the same today as the day Obama was sworn in the unemployment rate would be over 13%. .2% of last months drop in the unemployment rate was the result of reducing the number of workers
Second - it has been reported numerous times that the US needs to create 300,000 jobs each month just to stay even. The article states the economy has created 100,000 in each of the last five months - yet the rate has dropped?
Things aren’t getting any better - and they won’t until we get some stability in DC. The absurdity of passing a 2 month tax cut and think you have fixed anything is a joke…
schleufer on December 20 at 4:59 p.m.
click on unemployment then your state. boehners state is 9% but he wont admit its getting better.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=state:ST390000&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate+for+ohio#strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&rdim=state&idim=state:ST390000&ifdim=state&hl=en&dl=en
nslopeofw on December 20 at 5:15 p.m.
Dont forget that Obama promised us that passing TARP would keep the nation unemployment under 8%. Then when that and all the other promises didnt happen, he started and continues to this day to blame Bush.
Bush may have been a big spender, but he also happened to be the US president that was in charge when we were attacked on our own soil by radical Islamic nutbags. This caused us to protect our country by taking the fight to them. This was very expensive. Along comes Mr. Nobel Peace Prize, promising peace, then blaming his lack there of on Bush.
When Bush was prez, I felt safe. With Obama as prez, not only do i feel less safe, but also i am very embarrassed in regards to how foreign countries view our once great nation.
Obama will never fix our economy. He doesnt know how. Just because there was a little boost in jobs around the holidays, dont get your hopes up. He will F it up in January when he adds to the debt, and then tries to pay for it by taxing those who add jobs. Then he will add another 300,000 government jobs that we get to pay for. (Excluding them from the F’d up SS and medicare we all have to use)
The man is a never ending cycle of debt, taxing, and more debt. The worst president in the history of our country. Even worse than the peanut farmer.
selkirks on December 20 at 5:25 p.m.
@nslopeofw:
Funny. See, I thought that Jefferson Davis was the worst “President” that our nation has ever seen. Interesting to hear that I was mistaken. Thanks for the correction.
nslopeofw on December 20 at 7:11 p.m.
JD may have been your president, but he was never mine.
johnclarke on December 20 at 7:21 p.m.
nslopeofw on December 20 at 5:15 p.m.
Dont forget that Obama promised us that passing TARP would keep the nation unemployment under 8%
Occasionally I see you post things that sound almost normal, and I think, ok maybe this guy is not a complete wingnut. Then you post that mess above. First of all, you complete and total broken record, President Obama is not responsible for the TARP. Why do you keep posting this blatant lie? Are you really that stupid?
Second, this country suffered the worst attack on it’s soil, ever on the watch of George Bush. Just because he then invaded the wrong country, killed thousands of American service members and untold numbers of Iraqis did nothing, nada zip to keep you safe. In fact, Iraq is this close to becoming a civil war again, because of the complete and total failure of George Bush’s war.The US remains somewhat of a police state still to this day, so I’m glad you feel safer. I feel like I have TSA up my ass every time I fly.
If you want to learn how to fight a “war on terror” you should check out my man Barack Obama racking up the bad guys. Also, give Bin Laden a call. You know, the master mind of 9/11 who was living right under George Bush’s nose. Oh wait, he won’t be taking your call.
Sit back and watch as the economy recovers and Obama gets elected to his second term.
detroitdude on December 20 at 7:39 p.m.
Well said JC. Again, you have to be mildly retarded to SUPPORT the guy who essentially got us hit by terrorists and the made a huge blunder in foreign policy, as opposed to the guy who inherited this cluster and has since picked of terrorists one by one.
“When Bush was prez, I felt safe. With Obama as prez, not only do i feel less safe, but also i am very embarrassed in regards to how foreign countries view our once great nation.”
This I laugh at, it gets so boring to hear the patriotic drumbeating, and paranoia and classless swagger. Whatever happened to being humble while carrying a big stick? In all actuality, foreign countries have a better opinion of us since Obama took office. This nonsense of invading countries and bombing them back to the stone age has to stop, it is a flawed ideology. In essence it means, “consequences be damned, I’m just happy those silly Muslims fear us.”
nslopeofw on December 20 at 9:09 p.m.
Obviously you’ve both drank the liberal koolade. First, your boy Clinton could have gotten Bin Laden, but decided it wasnt that important. Then, because (again yer boy) Clinton had gutted the military and the intelligence community, we got hit by a bunch of backwoods terrorists (that learned to fly in the US because of (again yer boy) Clinton’s relaxed immigration laws.
Now, GW was 9 months into his first term when BAM, we got hit. Because our economy was already plunging from the dot com bubble, and because we needed to protect ourselves, the solid president GW Bush stepped up to the plate and kicked some Taliban ass. As mentioned before, because of a gutted intelligence community, Clinton involving us in the UN debacle, Iraqi dirtbags out for revenge, they convinced the CIA that Saddam had WMD. Our beloved prez once again stepped up, and using our now growing military (volunteers with pride for our nation…the real hero’s) kicked Saddam’s ass. True, due to a lack of spy intelligence (see above reason why) we were duped. One must acknowledge that the house/senate bought off on all of the plans (Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, and enhanced intelligence techniques), as the Prez cant do war without congress.
After a brilliant first term, and a so-so second, our great president handed the reins over to the new guy, Barak H. Obama. Now begins the decline.
Keeping in mind that GWB had to finance 2 wars, our debt was (what we thought at the time) outrageous. Not so, as our new prez showed us what real debt was all about.
“On average, the national debt increased $4.247 billion during each day Obama has been in office.
The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during George W. Bush’s eight-year presidency, CBS’s Mark Knoller writes .
“On average, the national debt increased $4.247 billion during each day Obama has been in office.”
THINK ABOUT THOSE TWO QUOTES!
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-23/politics/30018770_1_national-debt-bush-tax-cuts-president-barack-obama#ixzz1h8u6VlmJ
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20095704-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
You can spin anything anyway, but the fact that BHO’s debt is this:
“In 31 months of Barack Obama’s presidency, according to the Treasury and CBS News , the US has added $4 trillion to its national debt. That approaches the presidential record set by George W. Bush of $4.9 trillion, but there’s a catch to that. Bush set that record in two terms — in 96 months.”
http://www.thoughtsfromaconservativemom.com/?p=26267
WOW!
johnclarke on December 20 at 9:12 p.m.
You sir, are a bona fide wing nut.
nslopeofw on December 20 at 9:21 p.m.
OK,so there is: the debt, throwing away our friendship with the only sane country in the middle east (Israel), bowing to other world leaders (who do not return the favor, showing who the alpha wolves are), thinking Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are good guys, thinking that Americans need to pay more tax, (not just the “rich”), forcing a healthcare mandate that the majority of Americans didnt agree with, being good friends with a know bombing terrorist, blaming all of HIS problems on GW Bush, or that anyone who disagree’s with him is obviously a racist. It cant be that he just sux, it has to be because we hate anyone who is not white. Even other no-white people are racist (or uncle Tom’s) if they disagree with Obama the list goes on and on and on.
Point is, Jimmy Carter sucked bad as a president, and Obama is much worse. History WILL prove this in the long run.
We can do no wrong by getting rid of him. Given the choice between him and Hilary, in a heart beat i’s vote for another Clinton term. It doesnt matter who the Repubs run, or even a write in, as they cant do any worze for our country.
nslopeofw on December 20 at 9:22 p.m.
JC-
Coming from a koolade drinking uber-lib such as yourself, that may be a compliment.
nslopeofw on December 20 at 9:24 p.m.
Oh, and JC, If i am wrong, please show me with credible links and proof. You just saying i’m a wingnut isnt proof of anything except your lack of credible information proving me wrong.
nslopeofw on December 20 at 9:28 p.m.
yeah, that’s what i thought.
jddavis on December 20 at 10:39 p.m.
JC—Go after what nslope stated, not nslope himself. Point out where he is wrong or off topic; resorting to name calling does nothing to support your view.
I know you can do better than that.
Merry Christmas!
nslopeofw on December 21 at 12:09 a.m.
JD-
He cant, it isnt part of the liberal creed to address the issues. Its much easier to go after the person. In this case, he would be hard pressed to come up with any non-liberal, non-blog links to prove his point. All of this is documented, even using CBS as a source. Its very difficult for a liberal to refute CBS, as they cite CBS for the majority of their info.
Anyone can go to a blog that supports their opinion, but using actual news sources becomes another matter.
It is a FACT that Obama blames all of his problems on Bush.
It is a FACT that in 31 months, Obama had added the same amount of debt as Bush did in his entire 2 terms.
It is a FACT that Obama has publicly supported Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Its a FACT that congress was on board with both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
It is a FACT that Obama has thrown Israel under the bus many times.
It is a FACT that the majority of the American public did not support (and still does not support) Obamacare.
It is a FACT that most of the time anyone disagree’s with Obama, they are labeled “racists”.
It is a FACT that Obama has bowed to world leaders.
It is a FACT that he is close personal friends with Bill Ayers, a convicted domestic terrorist.
Its also a FACT that Obama was the president when we got Bin Laden, and that he was so concerned about what the Islamic world thought, he gave Bin Laden a “honorable” burial at sea. He was too afraid to offend the Islamic extremest’s to show any death pic’s to prove they got the right guy. (I dont doubt it was Bin Laden, so dont start with the birther/conspiracy accusations)
That is a lot of FACTs for JC to prove wrong. What do you think his odds are? I bet he doesnt even try.
detroitdude on December 21 at 7:33 a.m.
@nslopeofw: You mean our busted intelligence community that gave GWB a letter saying “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” a month before it happened that he ignored? Oops! Somehow you’re saying this was Clinton’s fault??
We’ve been all over the spending, there is no sense in trying to have a dialogue with people who choose not acknowledge how the debt started and where it came from, so I’ll make it easy for you…The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were all free of charge until Obama became President.
As far as “bowing” to other world leaders, if that is their custom he should honor it, but I know that isn’t what you meant. It’s called “not acting like a dick in the international community” much better than the “idiot cowboy with swagger” routine in my opinion. And if you really believe that there are countries interested in engaging us in traditional warfare, then you really are paranoid. It would be political suicide for the leader of Iran, North Korea, or even China to start a fight with us, none of those countries would come out stronger for doing so.
As far as bin Laden goes, would you have preferred he paraded the body around on a pike for all to see? I do agree however that there was a blunder. He should have given bin Laden’s body back to al Qaeda, then when they build a shrine to bin Laden, you spy on every person who visits the shrine.
Lastly, regarding Israel, all Israel does is manage to not get along with it’s neighbors. Obama hasn’t done anything differently than Bush. Frankly, I think aiding Israel is a waste of my tax money, because they are incapable of resolving their differences over there, so screw em.
johnclarke on December 21 at 8:10 a.m.
jddavis on December 20 at 10:39 p.m.
JC—Go after what nslope stated, not nslope himself. Point out where he is wrong or off topic; resorting to name calling does nothing to support your view.
I know you can do better than that.
Merry Christmas!
Of course I can do better than that, I simply choose not to.
What is the point of using logic with people that simply refuse to accept it? You read his list of “facts” above and tell me we are dealing with logic here. Nope. Wing nut. Besides, Detroit got my back, yo.
I predict more of this as things get better in the country, and they will get better. Gosh, remember when the black man took office? People simply flipped out. Now that his second term is essentially in the bag, it will start again.
If you go back to my posts from the election, I predicted the recovery would most likely take 3 years, just to get going. This is the worlds largest and most robust economy, yet we had to swallow a bunch of issues all at once. The TARP, huge unemployment, having to actually account for the wars and of course the continued huge hit to revenue. What I predicted is essentially common sense. It takes time to fix what George Bush screwed up; and it all could have been over faster if not for the traitors known as the GOP.
nslopeofw on December 21 at 12:30 p.m.
Once again, as the liberal finds himself without a leg to stand on, and cant provide any credible links to back his statements, he attacks the person who sent the message he disagree’s with. Its the liberal way. I dont blame your ignorance, i just wish you could learn.
Then, when the liberal cannot compete intellectually with the non liberal he drops the “it must be a race thing” card.
Never once does the liberal actually try and prove any of his points with credible links, as there are none.
The next step is to team up with another ignorant liberal, and try to make the non liberal believe that because there are 2 of them spouting the same wrong rhetoric, somehow it is more believable.
Once again, neither liberal actually offers any credible links to prove their point, they just continue the attacks so as to draw away from the issue they have now realized they cant prove and are wrong about.
They giggle back and forth like school children, winking about their non provable, very wrong information, while giving each other the strength to keep up the charade.
In the end, knowing no amount of proof can change the beliefs of the koolade drinking liberal, the non liberal just has to walk away knowing he gave them all they needed to become an informed, productive member of society, and they chose to remain ignorant.
detroitdude on December 21 at 1:19 p.m.
@nslopeofw: You really didn’t dispute anything I posted, but getting back to what you were saying about how what JC and I said as being empty rhetoric…all of this information is credible and is out there for you to find. I’m not going to start searching for and linking articles when we can’t even come to a consensus that this massive debt is not due to “Obama’s out of control spending”. Besides, it’s really not my job to post sources for you, look up the subject matter and you will see there is ample and credible data to back up everything I said.
Also, for the record, I’m a registered Independent voter, I don’t watch MSNBC, CNN, Fox, or any cable news channel that confuses journalism with propaganda. I get most of my news from NPR and PBS, you know, where they actually have real discussions about events and the reprecussions of those events. Probably not for you, people there are calm, have real qualifications and don’t yell and scream and cry in an attempt to get people to have an emotional knee jerk reaction while fostering paranoia and fear for the populace of the nation.
johnclarke on December 21 at 4:10 p.m.
I really do have better things to do than educate people that only want to argue. Enroll in community college or something, slope. However, I will repost your list and ask you to look up the definition of the word “fact”. See, what you have posted is …well…nonsense that does not relate in the slightest to the topic, which I do believe was unemployment falling…a fact. Anyway, it’s a super nice list of rants that underscores you are an angry person.
It is a FACT that Obama blames all of his problems on Bush.
It is a FACT that in 31 months, Obama had added the same amount of debt as Bush did in his entire 2 terms.
It is a FACT that Obama has publicly supported Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Its a FACT that congress was on board with both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
It is a FACT that Obama has thrown Israel under the bus many times.
It is a FACT that the majority of the American public did not support (and still does not support) Obamacare.
It is a FACT that most of the time anyone disagree’s with Obama, they are labeled “racists”.
It is a FACT that Obama has bowed to world leaders.
It is a FACT that he is close personal friends with Bill Ayers, a convicted domestic terrorist.
Its also a FACT that Obama was the president when we got Bin Laden, and that he was so concerned about what the Islamic world thought, he gave Bin Laden a “honorable” burial at sea. He was too afraid to offend the Islamic extremest’s to show any death pic’s to prove they got the right guy. (I dont doubt it was Bin Laden, so dont start with the birther/conspiracy accusations)
richard on December 21 at 5:20 p.m.
johnclarke … you know what? I don’t come on these blogs very often, but when I do and I read one of your posts, you feel it is your duty to call people names, throw everyone who doesn’t agree with into a box called “wingnuts”; but I hardly ever see you say anything intelligent.
I really can’t tell if you merely an uniformed minion of the left who watches MSNBC 24-hours a day or if you are merely a 16 year old who is attempting to establish his leftist “creds”.
Either way, I for one am sick to death of your BS tactics and putdowns. Why do you not put forth a rational argument and then accept debate from those who see things from a different perspective.
But I guess that would require that you first accept that there really are those people who do not view the Emperor Barack Obama as a savior of all mankind. Most people see him as a very nice gentleman with a very wonderful familiy … .who is simply way out of his league in running a country.
the facts speak rather loudly that just about everything he has attempted has been an utter failure. And yes, he did get bin Laden and for that I am grateful and I applaud his actions.
So why don’t you for once practice some humility and quit sticking your finger in other people’s eyes simply because you dislike that they do not bow down to the Emperor as you do.
Sound like a plan, johnclarke?
richard on December 21 at 5:36 p.m.
I just read your latest few posts, johnclarke, and I am no longer confused about you. You aren’t 16 years old; you simply have the emotional maturity of someone that age.
No one cares if you worship the ground that Obama stands on, but please, please stop with the garbage about people getting all in a tizzy when a “black man” was elected.
That never happened except in the minds of liberal propagandaists who argued (and continue to argue) that whenever someone is critical of the man it is a sign of racism. that is a tired, very, very tired meme of the left (the race card has kept the party in tall cotton for 50 years) but it is time to put it to rest.
but I suppose you (and all the other wild-eyed leftists) are merely getting ahead of the curve in the event he fails at re-election, so you can have a ready-made excuse that it was “the racists” who voted him out. Even though it was the same “racists” who voted him in.
Just sayin’ johnclarke; it gets old and it makes you sound like a dolt. I am sure you don’t want to be a dolt; do you?
nslopeofw on December 21 at 10:46 p.m.
JC and Detroit dude wont go out and look up this stuff, because they cant. All they really can do is try to change the subject, attack the non-liberal, and refuse to debate. (They cant prove me wrong, so they just act like debate is beneath them), and because of their superior liberal knowledge, they shouldn’t have to actually show credible links or prove anything they claim. We should just believe them, because they are superior to the rest of us. They know what is best for us peons, just like their messiah Obama. Damn the proof, liberals dont need proof. If enough of them gang up and scream their claims, then they believe they’ve won.
nslopeofw on December 22 at 4:23 p.m.
I always love an answer like this:
“well, i would prove it, but i’m not going to waste my time”
This says 2 things.
1. I cant prove my point.
2. I still act like a kindergartner when i am going to lose a debate.
Funny thing is everyone else see’s this, and is laughing behind your back. Dont worry though, we still love you. Without you and Daizee, how would we know what the extremest’s are thinking?