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Unemployment - Growing Before Our Eyes

So how is the unemployment picture in your area? Check out this map which shows a county-by-county, month- by-month progression over the past 3½ years - prepared from Bureau of Labor Statistics . Not a pretty picture.

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Posted by Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer, Author, Blogger, Photographer, Sales Strategies on 08/21/2010 01:31 PM

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30 Comments on Unemployment - Growing Before Our Eyes

AUG

2010

Steve...what a stark picture; looks as if a disease has decimated a section of our great country from Michigan SE to Florida. Wish we could take a "Vacation" away from reality. Thanks for the posting.

Barb & Sal

Barb and Sal,

It gets really dark on the map for the eastern US. :)

Steve

Our area of VA is still at less than 5%. Unskilled/blue color are the hardest hit. I get rental inquiries and when I check where they are coming from and that they think they can IMMEDIATELY get a job, I advise them to call me when they get a job and have their first paycheck!

Steve - a very sobering and bleak picture. And when you factor in those that have left the job market it is even worse.

Steve it looks like a cancer spreading across the country.

Keep hope alive...

Personally, I think government today does not realize it is business, not government, that will pull the country out of the doldrums.

Steve

Government needs to stop wasting tax dollars and step aside and let business lead the economy out of the recession.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

The unemployment rate for July in Las Vegas was reported at 14.8%. Thanks, Senate Majority Leader Reid.

The free market is a really cool thing. We've tried everything else... why not that?

AUG

2010

Our unemployment seems to resemble the plague...and Steve, those numbers don't even include the self-employed who have are now out of business.

Leilani

I'm very sorry to say this Steve, but you are wrong. Unemployment has miraculously stayed at 9.7% for months now.

Now I admit, if the press, et al, defined it now the way they did during the Bush years, it would be almost 20%, but they don't, and it is still 9.7%.

Personally I think this is a miracle and change we can believe in. You are too negative.

I am afraid that we are hit a lot harder than the media wants to tell the public

sad times for many

your friend in Charlottesville

Congratulations this post is now featured in the Silent Majority Group of Active Rain.

AUG

2010

Wallace,

This situtation is sad and even sadder that people are looking to the government to fix it. :)

Steve

Mike,

That's correct - as well as those underemployed. :)

Steve

John,

A good description. :)

Steve

Joshua,

We have to provide for ourselves. :)

Steve

Steve,

I agree. :)

Steve

Lou,

Great advice. Thanks. :)

Steve

John,

Just as long as he gets added to the list. :)

Steve

Lane,

The academics running the government don't understand it. :)

Steve

Leilani,

That is true. :)

Steve

Jay,

Pardon me. :)

Steve

Charles,

The government is prolonging the impact. :)

Steve

Nick,

Thank you. :)

Steve

Sorry, I can't do that. You might petition the governor of your state and/or the "president."

That is really disturbing. This video should be emailed to everyone. What a wake up call to clean house on Congress.

Jay,

OK, I'll try that. :)

Steve

Michael,

Isn't it revealing? Thanks. :)

Steve

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