Posted on 09/28/2011 8:02:57 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Unemployment rates fell in roughly two-thirds of large U.S. cities in August, despite zero job growth nationwide. Here are the cities with the highest and lowest rates: Best and Worst Metro areas Figures are in percentages
Highest unemployment rates August 2011 El Centro, Calif. 32.4
Lowest unemployment rates August 2011 Bismarck, N.D. 3.0
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Bismark, ND White 94.78%
Oil boom in North Dakota. Google Williston, ND.
8 of the 10 worst are -unexpectedly- in California...
Can’t drill for oil in California. Google AB 32.
You’re right. I was at a gas conference today and we were talking about this. They’re having real trouble finding people to work there.
More to the point, most are in the agricultural areas of the state where the Feds have cut off the irrigation water to save an effing little fish.Try driving down I5 between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. It does not take a rocket scientist to see the devastation that these ill-conceived decisions have wrought. Sure, California is rife with problems that contribute to our unemployment, but the “nation’s food basket” which is the State’s Central Valley is on life support thanks to FUBO!
If you are a mechanic or welder or have a CDL and can pass a drug test you are in.
32% unemployment? That’s worse than during the Great Depression! And to think that people WENT to California for work in the 1930’s.
How high does it have to go before people pick and look elswhere?
why leave when you can just bounce around on the “social safety net” indefinitely?
The winters are brutal. I find myself wondering how the Indian tribes ever survived them.
The winters are brutal. I find myself wondering how the Indian tribes ever survived them.
In the state legislature El Centro is located in the 40th Senate District, represented by Democrat Denise Moreno Ducheny, and in the 80th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Manuel Perez. Federally, El Centro is located in California’s 51st congressional district and is represented by Democrat Bob Filner.
Three Dems. Strike three you are out El Centro.
El Centro is about 15 miles from the border, many people with resident alien cards live in Mexico, they work long enough to drap unemployment, then draw unemployment until it runs out, then work long enough to get on again. They usually have also figgured out how to draw from other government give away programs.
In other words they ain't leaving any time soon, They live well on your dime.
A nice trned - ND, SD, Midland, and Houma are all oil towns. Even after the moratorium, the companies are trying to work.
But I wouldnt put much joy in Cali having 8 of the top 10, considering most of those are agriculture based economies, including a large amount of the US’ fruit and the majority of its tomatoes.
As to the NE towns, without having been there, I would guess there are a lot of retired people, whose not having a job wouldnt affect the unemployment rate.
I dont think oil is the main cause of those Cali cities. I think it is water. Most of them are agricultural based, and with a draught combined with So Cal taking Lake Mead’s water and No Cal water being cut off from the valley to save some fish, the farmers and related industries are drying up.
Maybe drilling off the coast would bring some of those guys to the coast, but giving them water would probably lower the unemployment rate there.
This can't be true! The BP oil spill destroyed the entire Gulf Coast.
:without having been there" - yeah, it shows. Why would you think there'd be more retired people here than Calif, Arizona and especially Florida, where the bulk of NE old folks retire?
I would guess, having been born, raised here - then spent a quarter century living around the states and coming back here 30 years ago - and always working more than one job to make ends meet until I retired - that, like here in Maine, a lot has to do with folk more likely to live within their means, didn't get sucked into the mega-mansions, interest-only loans, etc and work any job that's an honest one.
But what do I know?
You are absolutely right.
That crisis was evident over 30 years ago - but no one would listen.
Told my carpool partner that things were so bad around here that they couldn’t get worse and we were probably safe. He got jacked today.
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