NY's jobless rate rises to 9 percent in October
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September.
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New York's unemployment rate hits 9%, highest since April 1983
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New York's unemployment rate edged up to 9 percent in October, the highest rate since April 1983, the New York State Department of Labor reported Thursday. The state lost 12,700 private sector jobs in October.
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27% Increase in Visits To Brooklyn Soup Kitchens & Food Pantries
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From Crain's New York via Verse Responder Leon Freilich (Thanks Leon!): Hungry New Yorkers visited the city's food pantries and soup kitchens 400,000 more times during the third quarter of 2009 than they did during the same time period a year ago, an increase of 15%. According to a survey of 390 hunger programs supplied by City Harvest, which picks up unused food from restaurants and other donors and...
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Panel Discussion Monday: Surviving the Downturn in Cobble Hill
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
On Monday: Cobble Hill Fall Meeting to Feature Panel Discussion: "Surviving the Economic Downturn in Cobble Hill" The Cobble Hill Association's Fall meeting, Monday, November 9, at 7:30 pm, will feature a panel discussion on coping strategies for this difficult economic environment. With New York City's unemployment rate at a reported 8.9% and with under-employment estimated at 17%, many...
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Google Ad Pittance Costs Jobless Blogger Unemployment Benefits
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Six months into her job at an NYC law firm, a woman who would only identify herself as "Karin" was terminated. She relocated to St. Louis, Mo., and began studying for the bar exam while staying busy with a food blog, STL Meal Deals . Money was tight; she was living on $405 a week from unemployment benefits from New York, so she thought she'd try generating a little side money by signing...
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New York City Unemployment Hits 10.3%
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Joblessness in August was at a 16-year high, suggesting that the recession was continuing in the metropolitan region.
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NY State Unemployment Down, NYC Unemployment Up
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
The State Department of Labor released July unemployment numbers yesterday and it was slightly better news for the state, not very good news for the city: "New York State's unemployment rate, after seasonal adjustment, decreased from 8.7 percent in June to 8.6 percent in July 2009," but "New York City's rate increased from 9.4 percent in June 2009 to 9.6 percent in July 2009."...
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City's Unemployment Rate Currently Highest Since 1997
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The new jobless numbers from the State Labor Department are not too good, not too good at all. New York City's unemployment rate increased to 9.5 percent in June (the highest level since July 1997), while the rate outside of NYC climbed to 8.2 percent, the highest since June 1983. Last month the number of unemployed state residents jumped to 854,200, the greatest number ever on record. Low-five? And...
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With State Senate Circus, Jobless Benefit Bill Gets The Hook
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
A bill to raise New York's unemployment benefits, which allow a maximum payout of $430/week ($150 less than states like NJ and Connecticut), has died on the vine. Despite support from Governor Paterson, labor leaders and many lawmakers, the highly dysfunctional Senate seems incapable of passing the bill, which would have raised maximum weekly jobless benefits on July 1st to $625, and close the gap...
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This Week In Layoffs: 06.22.09
Above the Law (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
[ Ed. note : Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks . Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker .] Let's all move to Nebraska! In a week in which unemployment was up in 48 out of 50 states (plus DC), Nebraska's unemployment dropped by 0.1%, keeping it tied with North Dakota for the lowest in the nation at 4.4%...
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Michigan's tax 'burden' not really a burden; taxes don't seem to hurt states
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
Thanks to MIRS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics , we see once again that Republican complaints about taxes destroying our economy are wrong, wrong, wrong. Consider this: When all taxes are factored in, Michigan residents paid an average of $3,572 in state and local taxes. That's only a few hundred dollars higher than Alabama's average of $2,783 - and much lower than New York's rate of $6,385. (New...
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The Unemployment Olympics
Job Hunting Help from Emurse.com (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Filed under: Inspiration Making the best out of unemployment in New York City, laid off computer programmer Nick Goddard organized an event called the " Unemployment Olympics ". Games like "pin the blame on the boss" and the "fax machine toss" allowed people to get out, burn off some steam and have a little fun in the East Village. No one likes being unemployed and surviving...
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Google Now Charts Unemployment and Other Public Data
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: Google (GOOG) is getting fancy with public data in search results. If you search for “ unemployment rate New York ” or for any other state or county in the U.S., the first result will be the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics along with a chart. If you click on the link or image it will take you to an interactive chart where you can compare the...
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Tom Kean: New Jersey’s Unemployment Rate Higher than New York’s
New Jersey Senate Republicans (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean expressed deep concern that New Jersey’s unemployment rate is significantly higher than New York’s unemployment rate: “Governor Corzine’s statements about New Jersey being better positioned than its neighbors to weather this recession are contradicted by the facts. New Jersey lost 17,200 private sector jobs in March as the unemployment rate...
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Unemployment In New York Highest Since Sept. ‘92
Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
The state Labor Department announced today that New York lost 33,000 private-sector jobs in March, a decline for the seventh straight month. The number of unemployed in the state increased to 765,900 in March, the highest level since September 1992. Since the number of private-sector jobs peaked in August, the state has lost 176,100 jobs, which wipes [...]