Jobless rates rise in all 372 US metro areas
Published: June 30, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Unemployment rates rose in all the largest U.S. metropolitan areas for the fifth straight month in May.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that jobless rates in May rose from a year earlier in all 372 metropolitan area it tracks.
The unemployment rate in Kokomo, Ind., jumped to 18.8 percent, up 11.7 percentage points from a year ago, the largest increase of all metro areas. The second-highest increase occurred in Indiana’s Elkhart-Goshen, where the rate rose to 17.5 percent. That’s up 11.4 percentage points from a year earlier.
Both parts of Indiana have been slammed by layoffs in transportation equipment manufacturing.
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SLICK Republican-inspired CORPORATE PROFITEERS are still “at it”
firing employees and TRIPLING the work load of those remaining,
plus handing out even BIGGER BONUSES to CEOs and management.
Great job at SCREWING middle and working class America forever!
This calls for ANOTHER tax cut for the weathy …Right Conservatives. ?? How about another Bogus War ? Better yet, Better yet, lets ‘get the Government off out backs’ like Uncle R. Reagan and destroy the Manufacturing Base (You know …Those ‘evil (middle class creating.. UNIONS). Is it still morning in America Conservatives …??
Pardon Typo …’OFF OUR BACKS’
and yet us renters keep having the rent jacked up on us every few months