Unemployment rises in most metro areas

[The Northerner]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Unemployment rose in most cities and counties in December, signaling that companies remain reluctant to hire even as the economy recovers.

The unemployment rate rose in 306 of 372 metro areas, the Labor Department said on Tuesday. The rate fell in 41 and was unchanged in 25. That's worse than November, when the rate fell in 170 areas, rose in only 154 and was unchanged in 48.

The metro employment numbers aren't seasonally adjusted and can be volatile. Many of the increases were due to seasonal factors.

For example, Ocean City, N.J., which bills itself as "America's Greatest Family Resort," saw its unemployment rate jump to 16.4 percent in December from 14.8 percent the previous month.

That's double the 8 percent it reported in July, even though the nation's economy was in worse shape then.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_metro_unemployment

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Not LBN.

[cufford]

2. No kidding?

"signaling that companies remain reluctant to hire even as the economy recovers."

Oh really, on what planet are they referring to a recovery ???

More illogical, irrational nonsense.

Of course there is no "recovery" - things continue to get worse each day - and there won't be one. There can't be one.

30+ years of declining wages for the masses are the reason for our economic collapse (middle class all but gone...the greatest consumer market on the planet has been destroyed...not enough real consumers left to fuel the economy), and without a significant increase in wages (this will never happen) nothing could possibly turn for the better.

Do these idiots who spew this nonsense even have a clue what is actually going on!

This has little to do with UNemployment and everything to do with UNDERemployment. Even with a hypothetical 100% employment rate right now, little would change, because 100% employment at or near minimum wage won't fuel consumption. Many who are employed right now, and with 2 or 3 jobs, aren't even making ends meet.

Companies remain "reluctant" to hire??? Oh pulleeze. There's no consumption going on in this country to justify hiring anyone. It has nothing to do with "reluctance". In fact, the truth is that companies continue to fire workers in the country by the thousands each month (headline here on DU every week). Outsourcing continues. And it's a self-perpetuating domino effect of job losses that will only continue.

"Recovery" is utterly unsupported by the facts, and is nothing more than feel-good, happy-talk so that people can feel better. So they can believe that this has all just been a cyclical downswing that will inevitably rebound again, rather than a decades-long, complete restructuring of our economy from a strong middle class with good paying jobs for the masses, to a third-world, minimum wage economy where hardly anyone has the money to consume anything anymore.

For every one new story that tries to paint a picture of hope, of "recovery", there are five more on the page next to it contradicting that with facts that support only one rational conclusion; that not only are things continuing to get worse, but at an increasingly worse pace every month.

We've got decades yet to go before ever hitting any bottom in this country, and that end isn't even in sight.

And that's what the real facts demonstrate today.

[area51]

25. +1

"America increasingly looks like a developing nation as 30% rapidly approach poverty or are already there." article here

[customerserviceguy]

3. Wow, startling news

That a beach vacation destination city has twice the unemployment rate in the dead of winter, as it had in the height of the summer vacation season.

Strange things pass for economic news these days...

[maddezmom]

4. kick

[totodeinhere]

5. Unemployment rises in most metro areas

Source: AP

Unemployment rose in most cities and counties in December, signaling that companies remain reluctant to hire even as the economy recovers.

The unemployment rate rose in 306 of 372 metro areas, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The rate fell in 41 and was unchanged in 25. That's worse than November, when the rate fell in 170 areas, rose in only 154 and was unchanged in 48.

Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100202/D9DK7V400.html

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I thought I read some people saying on this forum that we are in a recovery now. Not so fast my friends.

[Rapier09]

6. People are hiring

Just not the same jobs as before,this is no different then any other recession.

[ixion]

7. Yeah, they're hiring alright... in India

here in the US, not so much.

[PassingFair]

8. I dare you to come HERE and say that. n/t

[Rapier09]

10. Where is Here?

There are things better left online.

[PassingFair]

15. Just north of Detroit.

I don't think unemployment was this
bad here even during the Depression.

[Skittles]

11. I've endured several recessions

this one IS DIFFERENT - MUCH MORE SERIOUS

[OhioChick]

13. Yeah..in China and India.

Hell, McDonalds isn't even hiring here.

[Michigan-Arizona]

19. Tell that to the people of Michigan n/t

[ddeclue]

22. Not unless you hold a security clearance or a medical license or you are joining the military.

[obliviously]

9. Jeez! What part of jobless recovery don't you understand?

[Demeter]

12. It Ain't a Recovery If There Are No Jobs

Don't let them fool you even a minute.

[unabelladonna]

18. so true.

just because the roaches on wall street are getting mega-bonuses does not make this a recovery. it's quite obscene.

[totodeinhere]

16. Yes I'm aware of that concept.

But what good is a recovery if jobs don't come with it, or if in fact, as this report shows, we are actually going backward and losing jobs? A jobless recovery only benefits the rich people on Wall Street. Is that what you want?

[thecrow]

14. I'm not fooled

I've been unemployed for over a year.

[dencol]

21. I just hit the year mark 2 days ago.

I'm working on my master's degree in the meantime, but am lucky to get a phone interview every few months.

[DesertDiamond]

17. If the unemployment rate isn't going down, why are they calling it a "recovery"???

[glinda]

20. Think that is the term for "looking for the dead bodies" isn't it?

[woo me with science]

23. Reposting this HORRIBLE moving graphic, because it needs to be seen:

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

[HughBeaumont]

24. The Bewsh Tax Cuts at work!

Give the wealthy every break known to man and watch as the country bleeds like an open wound.

Oh, and if one is a conservative, of course blame Clinton for this. Pretend Bewsh was only the "social" president and he "kept us safe" :eyes: