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Unemployment Rate By State: July Update, California Hits 11.9%

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The most recent BLS State unemployment data is out. State by state unemployment increased by 1.0% on
average (unweighted) from June to July.

Some notable states June unemployment rates and June-July rate of change:

  • California: 11.9%, 2.6%
  • Nevada: 12.5%, 4.2%
  • Texas: 7.9%, 5.3%
  • New York: 8.6%, -1.1%
  • Wyoming: 6.5%, 10.2%
  • Nebraska: 5.0%, 13.6%
  • Mississippi: 9.7%, 7.8%




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Fri, 08/21/2009 - 10:52 | Link to Comment nightfly
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Fewer people earning money means more money for the market right? Rally.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 10:54 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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Is it time to bring out the gullioutine yet?

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:42 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 23:30 | Link to Comment defender
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Banker:  "Why do I suddenly hear banjo music?"

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 15:55 | Link to Comment sigmadelta (not verified)
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 10:58 | Link to Comment avatar
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green shits

 

i mean shoots

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:12 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:04 | Link to Comment dnarby
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Shanks.

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 13:37 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 10:58 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:37 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:38 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:06 | Link to Comment dnarby
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Yep.

I traced it back to a paper Greenshootspan wrote.  They think keeping equity prices high will aid in the recovery, obstensively by giving companies better capitalization with which to borrow and spend with.  This appears to have been incorporated into the thinking at the Fed.

Anybody else see a problem with this logic?

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:01 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:52 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:02 | Link to Comment VLee
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Come on, guys!  Haven't you heard of a jobless recovery before? Buy, buy, buy!

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:02 | Link to Comment deadhead
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Clearly, this data is a victory for the bulls.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:07 | Link to Comment Pizza Delivery Man
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U.S housing is seeing some greenshoots.

Too bad it's the Chinese buying all the mortgages instead of Americans.

Some kind of lopsided world we're living in.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:09 | Link to Comment Mannwich
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We don't need jobs in the new economy.  We'll just trade worthless financial paper to each ad infinitum.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:11 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:47 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:53 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 21:00 | Link to Comment Dr Brown
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no, it is at the 1% level, not -1%

There are two scales, dude, right and left.

He put the line in the right spot for the scale on the right (with the little tick marks denoting the 5% increments).

The long horizontal scale lines are for the scale on the left.

Dr. Brown

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:12 | Link to Comment mdtrader
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Everybody is rich in CA, they don't need jobs. Bullish!

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:24 | Link to Comment dark pools of soros
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exactly.. they are all living on fat royalties to their swiss bank accounts....  well they WERE

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:13 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 18:55 | Link to Comment AGGfarm (not verified)
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:13 | Link to Comment Project Mayhem
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Let's just mail everyone a check for $500,000 and liquidate all the debt. 

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:14 | Link to Comment MountainHawk
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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE57K2KX20090821

"Stock rally is "dash for trash": hedge manager Bullman"
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:16 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:20 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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Who cares?  The folks losing their jobs are just worthless folks that do not really contribute to society since they no longer pay employment taxes and will be unable to spur consumption in any meaningful way.  So say many out there. 

I rather suspect that the greater the pain the greater the willingness to examine alternatives.  The risk of course is that ignorance, fanaticism & tyranny will take charge.  However, we are already far along that road and these hits may be the only hope remaining of waking the great Narod from their slumbers. 

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:28 | Link to Comment Veteran
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Far along indeed.  The 'American dream' is dead

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 12:10 | Link to Comment Marley
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But by the grace of god, there goes me.  And I'm a pagan.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:42 | Link to Comment Howard_Beale
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Numerous stock market cycles are lined up for the first week of Sep to be a significant top. NFP come out on the 4th. I think we have our rally expiration date close at hand. Since the cycles are from the 4-8th, and Labor Day is the 7th, either NFP explodes us to the upside with a little follow through on Tuesday, the 8th, or the party ends 8:30 am on the 4th. With the new highs today, we have a possible 250+ more Dow in this loco-mo-mo-train.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 12:55 | Link to Comment Rex Crotch
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Travel to North Dakota or Nebraska. Low employment in both states. Should be an exciting new life you can start.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:28 | Link to Comment dark pools of soros
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it is the best thing to do... in the early 90's and again in '02 i took off a year or so and had a great time by the west coast and then the east coast...  you can live pretty cheap when you take stress out of your life..

 

then again i was single and no mortgage and any other bills so your milage and chainage may vary

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:51 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 12:01 | Link to Comment Tripps
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RI almost 13% too

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 12:15 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Sat, 08/22/2009 - 08:42 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 13:11 | Link to Comment peoplesdemocrat...
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Those green shoots are trying to sprout but all these unemployed people keep walking on them. Yes I know, we are in a jobless recovery (cough, gag..........), things are great, yada yada yada

We need to grap a few enviromentalists to protect the green shoots!

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 13:26 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:07 | Link to Comment Printfaster
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I read that a survey found that more workers than ever in history fear being laid off.

These folks are the insiders.  What is that telling us about future unemployment?

 

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 14:32 | Link to Comment dark pools of soros
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who needs jobs, everything is going free..  free music, movies, mortgage, reporting, health care, food stamps... soon we'll get credits for gas etc

 

let the Red roll in and we all can live on blogs and Second Life forever

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 18:55 | Link to Comment AGGfarm (not verified)
Mon, 03/14/2011 - 05:22 | Link to Comment paragshah12
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I dont think it's fair that good hard working people with a family can not find a job anywhere. It makes it hard for these type of people to take care of their family. I personaly have been looking for a job for 2 years and still have not been able to find one because I do not have a college education. I cannot afford college. yes I can get financial aid but I still have to pay over 50 dollars a month out of pocket to the school. I think something needs to be done to help people like us.

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