All but six states lost jobs in April and double-digit unemployment persisted in every corner of the country as companies squeezed by the recession slashed payrolls.
For the fifth straight month, California led the nation in net job losses, with 63,700 jobs disappearing in April. Among the handful of winners were Arkansas, Montana and Florida — a state battered by the housing collapse and badly in need of good news.
Michigan, the heart of the teetering American auto industry, posted the highest unemployment rate in the nation, 12.9 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Oregon came in at 12 percent, South Carolina at 11.5 percent and Rhode Island at 11.1 percent.
I've been drawing unemployment for six months now. I've been on nearly 100 interviews, registered with 16 job and temp agencies, and have made the final cut for five or six actual jobs. Or rather, what are billed as jobs and end up being a bunch of people chasing their tails as these businesses end up hiring no one, eliminating the vacant position, and in some cases even laying off the people who would have been supervisors for these positions.
Temp agencies (as well as permanent) are laying off their own employees. Yes, the people in charge of doling out jobs are laying off their own employees right and left.
Meanwhile, each month the Dept. of Labor throws out statistics illustrating that, for every month so far this year, over half-a-million people have lost (and are losing) their jobs (not to mention those already unemployed, under-employed, etc.).
To everyone whomever instilled me with the belief that if you do X, Y, and Z, you'll reap the benefits, I'd like you all to know how full of sh*t you are.
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The article says that there are states that are creating jobs. If you own a house in a state that isn't creating jobs, rent out your house and move to where the jobs are. If you're already renting, negotiate with your landlord so that you can go to where the jobs are.
Foreigners do this all the time. Americans used to. Nowadays because of the culture of dependency, entitlement and liberalism, many of us expect everything will be handed to us. The conservative, pioneer spirit should still be alive.
North Dakota is awash in jobs, as are Montana and Wyoming. Pick one.
R. Krueger your answer is to simple and has problems. First, you have to find someone that is willing to pay the rent/mortgage for your house at that amount. And since many people are in the same fix as the person who has a mortgage and can't find a job, try to get people to rent a house for 1200 dollars a month. Since the majority of the houses are over the 100,000 dollar mark a mortgage/rent of that amount (maybe 1000 dollars) is the starting norm. Some people have a house note that alot more than my example.
Two, there isn't a negotiation with a landlord you are renting from. If the rent is 500 or 700 and you say that could you put the rent down to 300 so I could go work in another state he will say you owe him back rent and if you don't pay your out of your rental. And O yea, what if your a homeowner and you want to rent out your place and the person you find as a renter does the same thing your suggesting, your back to square one. Also your not going to live in a place that is 4 hours or more away from work, thats just pure nonsense. Usually people find work at most 2 hours away from where they work.
Also if Florida (one of the states that had an increase), it's not an increase of a few million. It's most likely an increase of 12,000 jobs, not enough to cover the "millions" that don't have a job. We are in a depression and the job losses are telling it big time. I'm just glad to have a job. But one thing scares me though, and that is we aren't out of this mess not by a long shot. Commercial property mortgages are coming due and in default, other mortgages that where prime are being defaulted on. You see the pundits that say that Sub-prime made this mess is wrong. It was the securitization of mortgages of all type and the lax regulation that made this problem into the depression that we have.
Lets say you are a homeowner that has a 2.5 million dollar house in California and make 500,000 a year, you can afford the mortgage. With your salary and such your instantly not sub-prime but a prime borrower. So lets say your house goes up in value to 3 million dollars. Your a young or old professional that see dollar signs in your eyes. You either pull out the full equity of 500,000 in the house and/or you decide to keep the equity as a line of credit that you can use. You as with everybody else go on a spending spree buying your wife and/or your family all the things that a professional that makes 500,000 a year buys (cars, vacations, school etc. etc.) you even think about getting into the flipping of houses and go buy another house or wreck to make nice and flip.
Your an overextended Prime borrower (which alot of people are and where), and then the hammer comes down on the whole process. You lose your job because of the downturn, you cant get any money out of your house or use the line of credit because the house is now worth 1 million dollars. You have a flip house that you can't sell etc. etc.. The individual has no money coming in and money having to go out on depreciating assets and appreciating liabilities. Now in the statistics and numbers to the state, federal govt. and others that keep track, your still a Prime Borrower but in reality your financially been reduced to a sub-prime borrower that is masked. The data that the MSM and govt. is seeing is behind what is really going on.
The article says that there are states that are creating jobs. If you own a house in a state that isn't creating jobs, rent out your house and move to where the jobs are. If you're already renting, negotiate with your landlord so that you can go to where the jobs are.
Foreigners do this all the time. Americans used to. Nowadays because of the culture of dependency, entitlement and liberalism, many of us expect everything will be handed to us. The conservative, pioneer spirit should still be alive.
North Dakota is awash in jobs, as are Montana and Wyoming. Pick one.
More Rushpublican talking points stupidity. The unemployed from one average-sized city would eat up every open job in Montana or North Dakota.
The unemployed from one average-sized city would eat up every open job in Montana or North Dakota.
Prove it. Liberal whining doesn't cut it any more.
Prove it. Liberal whining doesn't cut it any more.
There are only 640,000 people in the whole state of ND and only 960,000 in Montana...how many open jobs could there be? do the math dumas!
I used to live in Montana and know a little about the job market in the cold country. About three years ago the state of Wy. did a job and cost of living survy of the state. The result was the average wage was not enought to pay the min expances of a single person trying to live there. People leave these northern states so that they can get a job that will pay the bills. Down in the hot country if the power is turned off you get hot and grumpy, up north when the power goes off you die. Their are jobs up north but you can not afford to live there.