"The Georgia Department of Labor has released data showing 2,351 persons filed new unemployment insurance claims in Hall County in January."
Or, is the man right about those numbers?
California only lost 20,000 jobs in January and it's the most populated state in the nation with 36 million people.
"There were 9,260 persons who filed for unemployment in Dalton..."
If Harris is stone cold straight, that's 11,611 people filing new unemployment claims in just Hall and Dalton.
The AP story, also in the Times, says the entire state only had 4,392 new unemployment claims.
"Among the states, California saw the biggest increase in jobless claims, a jump of 20,000 that it attributed to layoffs in construction and service industries. The next largest increases were in: North Carolina, with 8,663; Ohio, with 4,738; Georgia's 4,392; and Kansas, with 3,232."
Must be an explanation besides a smoke screen.
National unemployment, unadjusted, is reported as 8.5%.
13 million people are unemployed.
Ten years ago, the annual average was under 6 million. January 1999 was 6.6 million. Unemployment is roughly double today was it was in January 1999.
I just wish the Horse Faced Ann Coulter was pulling a plow or digging a ditch.
No comments:
Post a Comment