How Would You Classify The Employment Picture In Your Area?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[Tikki]

1. Hiring for part-time, low paying jobs..

bush's uniquely American: two, three p/t jobs to pay the bills..
or..live with your parents...like forever.


Tikki

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. If there was an option below "Poor," I would've checked that one... nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It Sucks In Florida

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[RedRocco]

11. same here

I was just pondering yesterday that someone making $125k last year had more cash in a month than I had for the year.

[Starry Messenger]

35. Same here.

I was looking for "Grim".

[treestar]

4. May be better than other areas

There are help wanted signs.

There's a billboard in I-95, south of Philadelphia, advertising hiring of people who know Linux (I think that's what it is, I'm not really computer literate at that level).

[dkf]

7. I'm seeing help wanted signs a lot.

But that is when I'm shopping so probably not the best paid jobs. But still a job is a job.

[TheKentuckian]

26. A job is almost always better than no job but by no means is a job a job.

Subsistence at best, death spiral at worst wages along with money pit insurance makes a literal world of difference. You start considering retirement plans, stock options, and benefit time and you have night and if add any things like fulfillment, enjoyment, and upward mobility and you aren't even in the same hemisphere.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. 20% REAL unemployment, 2nd highest in state, losing population in the county

because of it, high rate of empty houses.

"Alabama's unemployment rate holds at 9.3 percent but in Monroe County nearly 17 percent of the population is out of work."
says Mobile Ala tv news
but
local paper says 20%

Also, for comparison to other areas, we have:
income per capita is $18,522, which includes all adults and children. The median household income is $33,898.

[woo me with science]

6. Big, new 6,000-worker Defense Department complex opening here.

Our new economy.

[Ilsa]

8. I had to answer "Good" because our rate is only

7% in May according to the State of Texas. The problem is that our economy is still slow because there are not that many professional jobs here outside of healthcare.

We also have a huge industrial plant opening here next year, and that should help more people achieve a higher standard of living.

[socialist_n_TN]

13. I wouldn't consider 7% good at all..........

Better than poor of course, but not good at all.

[Ilsa]

30. I was thinking about it relative to the national average of 9%

a state average of 8%, and that other cities with our demographics are as bad off if not worse.

But you are correct that 7% isn't really "Good."

[CaptRandom]

9. Sucktacular

[RandySF]

10. Not great, but not as bad as the rest of CA.

The City of SF was also able to minimize layoffs when they passed the most recent budget, too.

[AsahinaKimi]

20. One of my best friend lives in LA and was laid off by Borders..

Her Unemployment insurance is soon to run out. I think she can apply for an extension but if there are no jobs in the area, what can she do? She's out looking each day, and I have given her lots of advice, for when I was looking for work. I hope she makes it before the insurance runs out.

[RandySF]

39. I'm not sure what to say.

I'm getting a lot of interviews, myself. But I hold a Masters degree. It helps also that I have been focusing on the public sector. As for someone whose experience in retail, I don't know what to say.

[socialist_n_TN]

12. Pretty bad. Over 9% statewide and since

I'm PERSONALLY unemployed, I chose poor.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. "North Carolina's unemployment rate jumped to 9.9 percent in June...

as community colleges, universities, and other state government employers cut 7,600 workers. The state Employment Security Commission said Friday that the jobless rate rose from May's 9.7 percent rate, the level where it had been stuck for three months. The number of unemployed increased by more than 9,500 workers to almost 450,000. Government was the big job-loser in June, cutting 10,200 jobs as school boards, municipalities and state agencies tightened belts.

The number of workers drawing a paycheck has grown by 11,000 in the past year and the number unemployed has fallen by more than 28,000. Official jobless figures don't count as unemployed people who have stopped looking for work or settled for part-time jobs."

http://wlos.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wlos_vid_4987.shtml

Press release from the NC Employment Security Commission:

http://www.ncesc1.com/PMI/Rates/PressReleases/State/NR_June_2011_StRate.pdf

In a nutshell: NOT GOOD, AND GETTING WORSE.

[mnhtnbb]

33. Yes, not good and getting worse.

[bayareamike]

15. Not so good

Lower than the state average, but still near 12%. Added jobs last month, but also lost some.

[xxqqqzme]

16. Bleak would be a better

word for Southern California. (Although my son did just get a job w/ Trader Joes's and the health care plan includes dental)

[socialshockwave]

17. City I live in

Niagara Falls, ON - has roughly 50% unemployment - the highest in the country, last I checked.

[hack89]

18. Good for engineers and others with technical degrees

not so good for non-college educated people.

[bbinacan]

19. Very good in my part of SW PA

mostly due to all the natural gas activity here.

[newportdadde]

21. I know for my type of job online sites such as monster or dice have dropped off a lot.

Very noticeable drop in the past 2 months, everything left is 'contract work' for three or six months with a chance of permanent hire. Just nothing out there at all.

[backwoodsbob]

22. begging for people at my shop

[Kaleva]

23. It was poor even in the 90's.

[crazyjoe]

24. my wife and i are very lucky to have good paying secure jobs.

We both work for large corporations, me in the data storage arena and my wife, big pharma. even though big pharma is responsible for totally screwing with health care in general, they are pretty great to work for. (she makes more than i do, and I would be considered rich to alot of people) I do have friends that have been out of work for years, and i see first hand what it does to folks. One friend has basically turned to booze to fill his days and has stopped looking for work. He is in property management, or he was anyway.
very sad what's happening, it especially upsetting when someone can't pay the mortgage and looses their home after living and paying for it for years.
heartbreaking in fact.
here's to hoping things get better soon. I do feel blessed that i am employed and doing very well, I wish their were something I could do to help.

[Le Taz Hot]

25. Poor - 16%

[bigwillq]

27. Awful

I live in CT.

[shanti]

28. poor and always has been

except for the government jobs (i live in the capital).

[Forkboy]

29. Poor, but it's always been this way, even in the 90's.

[Throd]

31. Very bleak in Sacramento.

[Luciferous]

32. 3rd highest unemployment in the state. In our local paper there are usually

2 or 3 jobs posted. It's pretty bad here right now.

[Fire Walk With Me]

34. I'm in south central LA. If you look out the window at night

you can see the prostitutes doing great business, so I'd say things are good around here.

:sarcasm:

[The Big Vetolski]

36. I'm in northeastern Ohio. No brainer. Poor. 8.8% unemployment,

officially, statewide, thought it's actually a little lower here. There are people applying for food stamps who never thought it could happen to them, even as the Republican government in Columbus is doing everything it can to eliminate food stamp workers. Cleveland just laid off hundreds of cops and firefighters due to the State's budget cuts and elimination of the estate tax.

There is anger building here.

[stevenleser]

37. Pretty good in NYC right now. n/t

[rucky]

38. Shit sandwich n/t